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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