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double-headers

double-headers is the plural of double-header.

Meaning of double-header

Noun

double-header (plural double-headers)

  1. A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.
    • This afternoon we will have a double-header between the Bears and the Wolves, games at 3pm and 7:30pm.
  2. A pair of sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.
    • The NRL season opener at the Olympic stadium will be a double-header: Dragons vs Eels and Souths vs Wests.
  3. A pair of sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
  4. The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.
  5. A double-headed coin.
  6. A train pulled by two locomotives.
    • If this pipe is broken while running as the second engine of a double-header nothing will be lost as the operation of the distributing valve is then similar to that of a triple valve,[…].1929, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen′s Magazine, volumes 86-87, page 132

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Questions about double-headers

What is double-headers the plural of?
Double-headers is the plural of double-header.

Words near double-headers in the dictionary

  1. double-hatting
  2. double-head
  3. double-headed
  4. double-headed bug
  5. double-header
  6. double-headers
  7. double-heading
  8. double-heads
  9. double-hearted
  10. double-hulled
  11. double-hung

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