double-header
Britishnoun
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a train drawn by two locomotives coupled together to provide extra power
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Also called: twin bill. sport two games played consecutively by the same teams or by two different teams
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informal a coin with the impression of a head on each side
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informal a double ice-cream cone
Example Sentences
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Rinaldi also knows his chances of that for next year’s Super Bowl-Valentine’s Day double-header are about as remote as scientists discovering underground lakes of fudge on Mars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Mixed doubles curling continues with another double-header for Britain's Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds in their final matches of the round robin stage.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Littler is currently preparing for the World Series double-header in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
Having missed February's Nations League games, she was called up to the squad for the double-header against Belgium in April, only to have to sit out the first game.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
Out of the house he plumped, to the waiting double-header of locomotives attached to the rotary, and the other engines, parked on the switches, with their wedge ploughs, jull-ploughs, flangers, and tunnel wideners.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison
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