a children's game of jump-rope in which two turners swing two ropes simultaneously in a crisscross pattern for the person jumping
: also double dutch, Double Dutch
double Dutch in American English
noun
slang
unintelligible or garbled speech or language
She could have been talking double Dutch for all we understood of it
Word origin
[1875–80]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cross-fertilization, knockabout, neoclassic, overdraft, slime mold
Double Dutch in American English
noun
(sometimes lc)
a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over