double-header
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.85 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.
noun
A pair of sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
noun
noun
A train pulled by two locomotives.
Example Sentences
- "This afternoon we will have a double-header between the Bears and the Wolves, games at 3pm and 7:30pm."
- "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."
- "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"
- "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."
- "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,[…]."