Double Dutch

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noun (sometimes lowercase)

a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.

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Definition for Double Dutch (2 of 2)

double Dutch

noun Slang.

unintelligible or garbled speech or language: She could have been talking double Dutch for all we understood of it.

Origin of double Dutch

First recorded in 1875–80

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Example sentences from the Web for Double Dutch

And Ollie says, ‘Oh, I see, well, let me have two double vodka martinis.’
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He went on to say that even such double horrors had never kept cops from continuing on.
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Faced with the loss of middle class voters, the administration seems determined to double down on its current coalition.
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Between June and October 1943, 4,283 British, 1,303 Dutch, 1,630 Australian, and 88 American soldiers died.
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Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
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In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
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The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.
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British Dictionary definitions for Double Dutch

double Dutch

noun

British informal incomprehensible talk; gibberish

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Idioms and Phrases with Double Dutch

double Dutch

Language that cannot be understood, gibberish, as in They might have been speaking double Dutch, for all I understood. This usage dates from the 1870s (an earlier version, however, had it as high Dutch) and is heard less often today than the synonym double talk.

A game of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes swung in a crisscross fashion.

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