doubles

Noun

double (plural doubles)

1. Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
   • I did double his sales this month.
2. A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
   • Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.
3. A drink with two portions of alcohol.
   • On second thought, make that a double.
4. Two shifts of work back to back.
   • I work a double this weekend.
5. A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
   • According to the description our captain had given me of Peter Sandaker once when he had dropped behind on the march, he was particularly good at telling tales and stories about goblin-birds, doubles, and fairies, and had a special fancy for entering into the most minute details, whenever he...1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 71
6. A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.

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