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doubles

/ ˈdʌbəlz /

noun

  1. functioning as plural
    1. a game between two pairs of players, as in tennis, badminton, etc
    2. ( as modifier )

      a doubles player

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Host and guest pop and lock on cardboard—the only proper surface for breakdancing—and in no way did they have dancing doubles.

The title of its final track doubles as a mission statement: “FunkNRoll.”

In Sierre Leone and Liberia, the CDC estimates that the number of cases doubles every 30 days and 24 days, respectively.

And in Copenhagen, BIG Architects are building a new incinerator that also doubles as a wintertime ski slope.

[Laughs] And there were no stunt doubles during that scene, but no one got hurt.

Fat Boy, our clarinetist who doubles on Martian horn-harp, made a feeble attempt at optimism.

A very attractive finish is to work a row of doubles in color, making a double in each treble.

As he doubles quickly, however, it is not so easy to catch him when overtaken: still, it can be done.

She's found out which way her bread was buttered, and means to come the doubles over Jack; but not quite so easy done, my girl.

The President appoints the 7th to be a day of humiliation and prayer, and Dr. Leyds doubles his bodyguard.

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