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Definition of double Dutch in English: double Dutchnoun mass noun1British informal Language that is impossible to understand; gibberish. instructions written in double Dutch Example sentencesExamples - From absentee ballots - voting by post - to xenophobia (fear of or hostility to foreigners), it provides simple explanations of terms that prove more double Dutch than simple English for many citizens.
- Drivers who fail the test are given a result sheet, which is little more than double Dutch.
- The rules are as follows: whoever leaves first is a twat, too stupid to realise that you're not a real moviegoer unless you stay for the credits, whether they be in Cantonese or double Dutch.
- Hazel danced up to the viewing platform, forgetting she didn't have a mathematical mind, and that it would all be double Dutch to her.
- So are ya gonna tell us what all this double Dutch means or what?
- A Chinese new year you might say, even if it does all sound like more than a little double Dutch.
- I think, to translate the double Dutch, that means they are concerned that we are not going to sell assets.
- To most readers these names are double Dutch, but don't ignore the trend.
Synonyms nonsense, gibberish, rubbish, balderdash, blather, blether 2North American A jumping game played with two skipping ropes swung in opposite directions so that they cross rhythmically. Example sentencesExamples - The 50-year-old executive assistant is energized and invigorated by a weekly dose of double Dutch.
- I used to jump double Dutch when I was your age.
- It was a time when racial discrimination wasn't as subtle, when Motown music filled the air, when young girls jumped double Dutch, ate Squirrel Nuts and Brown Cow candies and washed down the sticky sweets with NEHI sodas.
- Jump rope champions show Martha their double Dutch techniques.
- We were 8 or 9 at the time, and when not jumping double Dutch or playing beauty parlor, Valeria and I would spend hours on the stoop of my family's Brooklyn brownstone swapping elaborate stories about Larry.
- The story, set in Cincinatti, Ohio, focuses on Delia and Randy, good friends who attend the same middle school and have a love for double Dutch.
- Learn double Dutch style and start a team.
Definition of double Dutch in US English: double Dutch(also double dutch) nounˈˌdəbəl ˈdətʃˈˌdəbəl ˈdəCH North American A jump-rope game played with two long jump ropes swung in opposite directions so that they cross rhythmically. as adverb three girls jumped double Dutch, the white cords whirring like an electric fan Example sentencesExamples - The story, set in Cincinatti, Ohio, focuses on Delia and Randy, good friends who attend the same middle school and have a love for double Dutch.
- Jump rope champions show Martha their double Dutch techniques.
- I used to jump double Dutch when I was your age.
- We were 8 or 9 at the time, and when not jumping double Dutch or playing beauty parlor, Valeria and I would spend hours on the stoop of my family's Brooklyn brownstone swapping elaborate stories about Larry.
- The 50-year-old executive assistant is energized and invigorated by a weekly dose of double Dutch.
- Learn double Dutch style and start a team.
- It was a time when racial discrimination wasn't as subtle, when Motown music filled the air, when young girls jumped double Dutch, ate Squirrel Nuts and Brown Cow candies and washed down the sticky sweets with NEHI sodas.
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