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View synonyms for double date

double date

1

noun

, Informal.
  1. a date on which two couples go together.


double-date

2

[ duhb-uhl-deyt ]

verb (used without object)

, dou·ble-dat·ed, dou·ble-dat·ing.
  1. to take part in a double date.

verb (used with object)

, dou·ble-dat·ed, dou·ble-dat·ing.
  1. to accompany (someone) on a double date:

    They double-dated the two sisters.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of double date1

First recorded in 1920–25

Origin of double date2

First recorded in 1945–50
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Idioms and Phrases

A social engagement in which two couples go together, as in They went on a double date with her brother and his girlfriend . [c. 1920]
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Example Sentences

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From Time

She says that, shortly after a rough breakup, she went on a double-date with a man and Cosby and his wife, Camille.

And then we need the double-date photo to end all double-date photos.

And that we should rectify this by getting them on a double date.

The double date reappears in a note to the Pope Letters of 1735, solely through a change in the punctuation.

Hevelius gives the double date, 15⁄25, which is evidently right.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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