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Definition of Doubleheader
1. Noun. Two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day).
Definition of Doubleheader
1. Noun. A train with two engines, (predates baseball term). ¹
2. Noun. (baseball) Two games played on the same day between the same teams. ¹
3. Noun. (fishing) Two fishermen each catching a fish at the same time. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doubleheader
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doubleheader
Literary usage of Doubleheader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baseball Goes to War by William B. Mead (1998)
"On September 14, the Cubs, leading the Cardinals by two games, split a doubleheader
with the Phillies. The Cardinals had a doubleheader in St. Louis with ..."
2. Passenger Terminals and Trains by John Albert Droege (1916)
"Twice the number of men are not required when the train is a doubleheader.
This applies whether the power used is electric or steam. ..."
3. Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila by Charles King (1901)
"... in tawny billows that enveloped the rearmost coaches and, mingling with the
black smoke of the “doubleheader” engines, rolled away in the dreary wake. ..."
4. Muhammad Ali & Company by Thomas Hauser (1998)
"... which was the second half of an HBO doubleheader co-featuring George Foreman
versus Adilson Rodrigues. Nike Tyson: The Way He Was It must feel strange, ..."
5. Who's who in South Dakota by Oscar William Coursey (1916)
"HIS RAILROAD EXPERIENCES Mr. Doolittle has been in only one railroad wreck and
that was when they were running a doubleheader through a blinding snowstorm. ..."
6. Chapters in general psychology by Stevenson Smith, Edwin Ray Guthrie (1921)
"Toward the end of the doubleheader the ball player again becomes less sensitive
to situations and slower in response, and this we call fatigue. ..."
7. Twentieth Century Manual of Railway and Commercial Telegraphy by Frederic Louis Meyer (1905)
"No two hundred four 204 Eng 244 and two thirty one 231 Engs 330 and 316 doubleheader
will meet at Perry Order Jfo.lLo.K. at 837 P M. Ea JWB Operator. ..."
8. Praise Blue Skies by Tom White (2003)
"One Sunday in 1956, Granddad and I watched and listened to a Cleveland Indians
doubleheader. We started this diamond saga ..."
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