double-click

[ duhb-uhl-klik ]

verb (used without object)

1. to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file:

   Double-click on the desktop icon.

verb (used with object)

1. to double-click (a mouse button) or double-click (a program, file, etc.)

Other Words From

• dou·ble click noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of double-click¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

There was a double click and the bonds tightened painfully, pressing the chafed red skin white.

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Whether his acute sense of hearing had enabled him to locate the point whence came the double click, Larry did not wait to see.

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Next minute I heard the double click of a cannon and my hair sat up.

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Then came a double click, and Jesse Pelter found himself handcuffed.

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A double click followed, a familiar sound to Durham—the click of snapping handcuffs.

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