double-barreled

[duhb-uhl-bar-uhld]

adjective

1. having two barrels mounted side by side, as a shotgun.

2. serving a double purpose or having two parts or aspects.

   a double-barreled attack on corruption.

Word History and Origins

Origin of double-barreled¹

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

Parents will also be allowed to give their children a double-barreled surname.

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But this year’s ceremony, emceed by ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel, had the double-barreled box office bang of “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” going for it.

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Wielding a double-barreled shotgun in his review for The New York Times, the critic Stephen Holden dismissed Sparks’s book as “treacly” and called the film “a high-toned cinematic greeting card.”

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Then an older man steps out of a nearby house and walks toward him with a long, double-barreled gun.

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The double-barreled attacks have put extreme pressure on those lawmakers who happen to have fallen into the crosshairs of both men.

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