Double-header
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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.
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- 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,[…]."
- 7 Double penetration slang
"According to feminist writer and adult film producer Tristan Taormino, similar instances of sexual contact between men in heterosexual pornography, such as the "double header," circumvent queer meaning, given their location within heterosexual sex."
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