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doubleheader

doubleheader is the alternative form 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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Forms of doubleheader

pluraldoubleheaders

Questions about doubleheader

What is doubleheader the alternative form of?
Doubleheader is the alternative form of double-header.

Words near doubleheader in the dictionary

  1. doublehanded
  2. doublehandedly
  3. doublehandedness
  4. doublehanding
  5. doublehands
  6. doubleheader
  7. doubleheaders
  8. doublehearted
  9. doubleminded
  10. doublemindedly
  11. doublemindedness

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