double-header

See also: doubleheader

English

Alternative forms

• double header, doubleheader

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Noun

double-header (plural double-headers)

1. (sports) A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.

   This afternoon we will have a double-header between the Bears and the Wolves, games at 3pm and 7:30pm.

   • 2011, William B. Gould, IV, Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil, page 43:

     The ′40s and ′50s were in advance of the day of the twilight double-header, and most certainly before the more common twilight or “twinight” double-headers, in which the fans must leave so as to empty their seats for a new crowd which is to see the second game at a separately scheduled time.

2. A pair of sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.

   The NRL season opener at the Olympic stadium will be a double-header: Dragons vs Eels and Souths vs Wests.

   The next jazz double-header at The Sound Lounge will feature the Leonie Cohen Trio and the Sam Hawkins Quartet

   • 1991, Graeme Kent, Double Header: Atlantic City, August 1988: Boxing′s Strangest Fights, published 2000, page 227:

     It must have seemed a good idea at the time. The holders of two different versions of the world welterweight title were to top the bill against carefully selected opponents in a double header.

3. A pair of sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
4. (fishing) The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.
5. (numismatics) A double-headed coin.
6. (rail transport) A train pulled by two locomotives.
   • 1929, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen′s Magazine, volumes 86-87, page 132:

     If this pipe is broken while running as the second engine of a double-header nothing will be lost as the operation of the distributing valve is then similar to that of a triple valve, […] .

7. (slang) Double penetration
   • 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 104:

     According to feminist writer and adult film producer Tristan Taormino, similar instances of sexual contact between men in heterosexual pornography, such as the "double header," circumvent queer meaning, given their location within heterosexual sex.

Related terms

• (rail) double-heading, double-head