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doubledecker

doubledecker is the alternative spelling of double-decker.

Meaning of double-decker

Noun

double-decker (plural double-deckers)

  1. A vehicle (usually a bus, coach or train) or aircraft with two floors.
  2. A frigate with two decks above the waterline.
  3. (figuratively) Any object with two layers or parts stacked on top of each other.
    1. (figuratively) A sandwich with three slices of bread, whose toppings are on both sides of the middle slice.
  4. A headline that is two lines long.
    • Indian MSM include self-identified gay men (Western acculturated), kothis (men who tend to be the receptive male partner in anal and oral sex and typically have more effeminate mannerisms), panthis (men who tend to be the insertive male partner in anal and oral sex), and double deckers (men who are...2011 December, Beena Thomas et al., “HIV in Indian MSM: Reasons for a concentrated epidemic & strategies for prevention”, in The Indian Journal of Medical Research, volume 134, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN...
    Synonyms:
    versatile, vers, switch

Forms of doubledecker

pluraldoubledeckers

Questions about doubledecker

What is doubledecker the alternative spelling of?
Doubledecker is the alternative spelling of double-decker.

Words near doubledecker in the dictionary

  1. doubled up
  2. doubled-down
  3. Doubleday
  4. Doubledays
  5. doubledealing
  6. doubledecker
  7. doubledeckers
  8. doubledome
  9. doubledomes
  10. doubleganger
  11. doublegangers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doubledecker (page history and authors); double-decker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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