单词 | double-double |
释义 | double-doublen. 1. Chiefly Canadian. A cup of coffee with a double serving of both sugar and cream. Also: such a serving. ΚΠ 1972 National Public Accountant May 4/3 Least practical seems to be the taking of orders, with the attendent [sic] confusion of black-double cream-no sugar, double-double, etc. 1975 H. Garner Death in Don Mills xii. 190 Look at the size of that cheeseburger, and a double coffee with double double. 1995 C. Strube Milton's Elements iv. 30 They stop at a Coffeetime. Winnie orders a double double. 2012 Guelph (Ont.) Mercury (Nexis) 21 June (Final ed.) b1 One large double-double from Tim Hortons packs 280 calories and 14 grams of fat. 2. Basketball. The achievement of a double-digit total in two of five statistical categories (assists, blocks, points, rebounds, and steals) by a player over the course of a single game. Cf. triple-double n. at triple adj. and adv. Additions. ΚΠ 1983 Nocona (Texas) News 17 Feb. 12/1 Five of the eight have pulled double-doubles: scored in double figures and rebounded in double figures. 2002 T. Wallace Kentucky Basketball Encycl. 59/2 [He] had 15 double-doubles as a senior, including 23 points and 15 rebounds in a win over Vanderbilt. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasdouble-double double-double adj. ΚΠ ?1617 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 112 In nappie Ale, and double-double Beer. 1782 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 112 Not only double-stars, but..double-double. 1869 E. Dunkin Midnight Sky 160 Epsilon Lyrae is..a double-double star. < n.1972 as lemmas |
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