Definition of Double up

1. Verb. Bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain. "He doubled and vomited violently"

Exact synonyms: Double, Double Over
Generic synonyms: Bend, Flex

2. Verb. Share a room or a bed designed for only one person.
Generic synonyms: Share

3. Verb. Stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager.
Exact synonyms: Parlay
Generic synonyms: Back, Bet On, Gage, Game, Punt, Stake

Definition of Double up

1. Verb. (transitive) To double the quantity, amount or duration of something ¹

2. Verb. (poker by extension intransitive) To double one's amount of chips by winning an all-in pot. ¹

3. Verb. To bend, bend over; to fold; to stoop. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To have a secondary use. ¹

5. Verb. (baseball transitive) To get the second out in a double play, typically referring to getting an out by beating a runner back to a base (often by throwing) after a fly ball has been caught ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Up

double tachycardia
double take
double taker
double talk
double tap
double taps
double team
double tertian
double tertian malaria
double thymidine block
double time
double tongue
double top
double trap
double up (current term)
double vertical line
double vision
double whammies
double whammy
double whole note
double whole notes
double yellow line
double yellow lines
doublecheck
doublechecked
doublechecking
doublechecks
doublecross
doublecrossed

Literary usage of Double up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Zulu-English dictionary by John William Colenso (1884)
"double up; double up (the legs of cattle) =drive hard ; ruffle or ravel up, as a string; shut up, as a spy-glass. ..."

2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
""To double up the fist" je to fold the Sagers together to as to make the baud into ... so a* to шшш him double up with P«n, tr so пя lu leave him " all of ч ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Buckle, vn I. Bend, bow, double up, curl, shrivel. setf earnestly. Buckler.». I. Shield, «gis. 2. (Rare.) Struggle, contend, strive. Buckle one's self. ..."

4. Paul Richards' Book of Breads, Cakes, Pastries, Ices and Sweetmeats by Paul Richards (1907)
"Break in small pieces and mold round, give some proof and roll long with both hands; then twist and double up in rope fashion, brush with butter and set on ..."

5. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"The only caveat, as you might have guessed by looking at the network picture, is that if we had to double up the cutter RIP and the OPI RIP, we'd probably ..."

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