double-header

Definitions

1. 1

   A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.

   • This afternoon we will have a double-header between the Bears and the Wolves, games at 3pm and 7:30pm.
2. 2

   A pair of sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.

   • The NRL season opener at the Olympic stadium will be a double-header: Dragons vs Eels and Souths vs Wests.
   • The next jazz double-header at The Sound Lounge will feature the Leonie Cohen Trio and the Sam Hawkins Quartet
   • It must have seemed a good idea at the time. The holders of two different versions of the world welterweight title were to top the bill against carefully selected opponents in a double header.
3. 3

   A pair of sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.

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   1. 4

      The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.

   2. 5

      A double-headed coin.

   3. 6

      A train pulled by two locomotives.

      • If this pipe is broken while running as the second engine of a double-header nothing will be lost as the operation of the distributing valve is then similar to that of a triple valve,[…].
   4. 7

      Double penetration

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