double-decker

[ duhb-uhl-dek-er ]

noun

1. something with two decks, tiers, or the like, as two beds one above the other, a ship with two decks above the water line, or a bus with two decks.
2. a food item consisting of two main layers, as a sandwich made with three slices of bread and two layers of filling.

double-decker

noun

1. a bus with two passenger decks
2. informal.
   1. a thing or structure having two decks, layers, etc
   2. ( as modifier )

      a double-decker sandwich

Word History and Origins

Origin of double-decker¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Example Sentences

Listen: If you got off a double-decker bus to come to New York, who would you rather see waiting for you?

From The Daily Beast

You'd been drunk for hours, but you dove off a double-decker lake boat and came up gracefully for air.

From The Daily Beast

Harry is at an event promoting British trade, after arriving in New York on double decker bus with the British PM.

From The Daily Beast

By teaching a former first daughter how to do the dougie on top of a moving double-decker bus, it seems.

From The Daily Beast

Because of low clearances in two locations, double-decker freight containers cannot travel along that corridor.

From The Daily Beast

The forward speed of the Queen was checked and the big double-decker nosed into its pier.

From Project Gutenberg

If the house was a double-decker, as Baranof Castle at Sitka, powder was stored in the cellar.

From Project Gutenberg

As I have before stated, the Miama was a large double-ender, and she was also a very high boat, being a double-decker as well.

From Project Gutenberg

Imagine a huge chill room with brick walls, containing four hundred double-decker beds and nothing else.

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The cars were originally imported from Birmingham, of the double-decker type.

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