Double Dutch
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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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
The paper was covered with lines, circles, and writing that appeared to us like "double-Dutch."
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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