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double date
1noun
- a date on which two couples go together.
double-date
2[ duhb-uhl-deyt ]
verb (used without object)
- to take part in a double date.
verb (used with object)
- to accompany (someone) on a double date:
They double-dated the two sisters.
Word History and Origins
Origin of double date1
Origin of double date2
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]Example Sentences
I wanted to know what it was like for a regular guy to suddenly become one-quarter of America’s most powerful double date.
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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