double-header
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Meaning
(sports) 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.
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
A pair of sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
(fishing) The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.
(numismatics) A double-headed coin.
(rail transport) A train pulled by two locomotives.
Double penetration
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It was only his second victory of the curtailed season after he had triumphed at Emirates Formula One 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, in the second of the double-header at Silverstone in England in August.
Hedges thinks the Dons are going into the first game of the teams’ double-header on a high.
Bottas won that, and Hamilton the next two with a double-header at the British GP to follow.
But the national team’s doctors had hoped he would recover in time for the second match in the double-header next Tuesday.
Camden’s Jazz Cafe has a full week of music to enjoy — the UK jazz double-header of James Copus and Joe Downard is a highlight — while Ronnie Scott’s and 606 Club will also host some great artists.
Rwanda booked her ticket to the CHAN 2020 finals tournament after edging out Ethiopia 2-1 aggregate last year thanks to goals from Ernest Sugira in either leg of the double-header tie.