double adj.
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(S.Afr. gay) a bisexual.
Gayle. |
(N.Z. prison) an informer.
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 60/2: double agent n. an informer, nark. |
(US) an intensely unappealing person, usu. used of an unattractive woman.
Valley Girl’s Guide to Life 55: Double-bagger – Some who looks skanky and grody – like they’re so ugly you need two bags, one for them and one for you. | ||
Llama Parlour 160: She’s what we call in the trade a ‘two bagger’. Put a paper bag over her head — and then another one, in case the first one breaks. | ||
‘Valley Girls’ on Paranoiafanzine 🌐 Okay, like, this guy isn’t a total double-bagger, but, like, he’s not a fox at all. I mean, just look at him, he’s like, a total Melvin. | ||
[ | Dirty South 90: Maybe for Tania it would be paper bag time. No way I can look at her face while I’m woking it]. | |
[ | Devil All the Time 135: ‘Hell, you’re so damn ugly I’d have to put a sack over your head before I could get a hard-on’]. |
(US police) any plan, operation, etc., which produces success on two levels, e.g. for two police departments.
Vice Cop 135: McCarthy’s Vice team would work it from their end, initially, then turn it over to Narcotics if the tip was good. A double-bang case like that always looked good. |
1. (N.Z.) a multi-orgasmic woman.
Stepping Out 59: Giving you your bit, is she, then? She’d be a double banger I bet. the quiet ones always are [DNZE]. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
2. (N.Z. prison) a single package that is the equivalent of a double delivery of contraband.
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 60/2: double banger n. a large drop, the equivalent of two visits’ worth of contraband in one delivery. |
see separate entry.
see separate entries.
see double-dog dare
see blue n.1 (4)
insincere, hypocritical.
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
excellent, admirable, impressive; an intensive.
‘Bingo’ in Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 61: Oh, Judge, you’ll give me the double-breastedhorrors! | ||
Wkly Varieties (Boston, MA) 3 Sept. 6/3: A double-breasted doughnut fried in fat. | ||
Wkly Varieties (Boston, MA) 3 Sept. 7/1: A big overgrown, double-breasted Dutchman [...] had attempted to ravish the person of a little girl. | ||
Stray Leaves (1st ser.) 104: A set of more unmitigated double-breasted jackeens never listed! | ||
Sporting Times 19 Jan. 1/2: Our religious editor [...] would require a double-breasted, fire-proof waggon. | ||
Sporting Times 8 Mar. 1/2: It was Bow Street, dear old Bow Street, once more, and not a mere drunk-and-disorderly, but a fine old, double-breasted, copper-bottomed assault case. | ||
Shorty McCabe on the Job 103: [He] moved into a double-breasted mansion up on Capitol Hill. | ||
Scarlet Pansy 167: Where men are men and women are double breasted. | ||
Augie March (1996) 453: Late rising, puffiness, double-breasted slovenliness. | ||
(con. WWII) And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 68: Old Bucket-head was dancing with one overgrown double-breasted chick. |
the feet, esp. when one or both is a club foot.
Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
1. (US) a very attractive young woman.
Hepster’s Dict. 3: Double bubble – Extra attractive girl. | ||
Aus. Women’s Wkly 17 Nov. 40/2: Double bubble — a glamor girl. |
2. a double portion, an extra helping.
Concrete Kimono 7: I groaned. My head had the little men banging on anvils [...] working on double-bubble. | ||
Pyramids (1990) 120: You drew the plans, and then got in ten thousand lads on time-and-a-half and double bubble at weekends. | ||
Workin’ It 153: I would cuss them out, and she would cuss them out too. Damn right. They would get a double bubble. | ||
Layer Cake 33: In the grief stake I reckon he musta got double bubble. |
(drugs) a variety of potent marijuana.
🌐 I wanted to try Double Bubble Gum and AK-47. | ‘Grey Area’ Rev. on Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory
(US Und.) of two men, sharing a cell.
Prison Sl. 6: Double Bunking Putting two men in the same cell. This is not merely a practice where inmates share a cell, but it usually refers to a practice of putting two men in a cell that was made for one person. |
see burger n. (1)
see under carpet n.2
see separate entries.
(drugs) amphetamine.
Drug Crisis in Spears (1986). | ||
Recreational Drugs. | et al.||
ONDCP Street Terms 8: Double cross — Amphetamine. |
(US black) a double date.
Slam! 72: ‘Maybe we can double deal with Ice and Bianca if you and her make up,’ I said. |
1. a form of shackles; see cit. 1821.
Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 252: [note] A most excellent invention for rubbing down the skittish or the refractory spirits of this enlightened age. The double-deckers may be administered in many ways. The best and by far the most efficient we have seen, consists of two square billets of good old oak, each weighing 10 or 12 lbs., to both of which is fastened a stout quarter-inch chain, ending in the usual ring for the ancles [sic]. They are put on at discretion, either with rivet or padlock. The chain must be of sufficient length to enable the culprit, in going or returning from labour, to take up his double-deckers under each elbow, and so walk with them. |
2. (US) a double-strength cocktail, used as a pick-me-up.
Amer. Sl. Dict. 96: Double-decker (Am.), two ‘cocktails,’ or other morning refreshers in one; a drink for a thirsty man. |
3. (N.Z.) a sheep with two seasons’ wool.
Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 80: Defiant woolly sheep also known as ‘double deckers’, which had been wily enough to dodge last season’s muster. |
4. a hard punch.
Ringer [ebook] He lamps me. One big double-decker, puts me on the floor. |
see under deuce n.1
(US prison) a sentence in excess of ten years.
Intractable [ebook] The prospect of serving double digits for armed robbery held no special appeal to me. | ||
Intractable [ebook] One month before his twenty-second birthday Ray Denning began serving a prison sentence of double figures. |
see under dime n.
see dink v.
see zebra n. (6)
1. the worst.
Love and Law III i: Oh! the double-distilled villain! | ||
Devil In London II i: Rook, you are a double-distilled scoundrel! | ||
Sydney Herald 23 June 2/2: The smuggler is a thief — a double-distilled theif. | ||
Man who was not a Colonel 134: I made you a double-distilled, first-class hero. | ||
Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) 9 Aug. 3/7: The Argus calls Mr Williams [...] a double-distilled traitor [...] Pretty hot that! | ||
Advertiser (Adelaide) 9 Aug. 7/8: This Mr Archibald described as double-distilled trash. | ||
Brisbane Courier 18 May 18/4: If you wanted to make a double-distilled fool of yourself, go to the Home Secretary. | ||
Brisbane Courier 1 June 5/5: The ‘Daily Express’ [London] remarks that when the German Press abandons guttersnipe abuse [...] it only succeeds in reaching a level of double-distilled lunacy. | ||
Cowboy 75: Most of the punchers, like all other old-time Westerners, merely withheld their intimacy from every stranger until the latter should fully have disclosed his nature and have established whether he were a ‘white man’ or else [...] worst of all, ‘double-distilled’. | ||
(con. 1860s) Wild Bill Hickok 174: One scrivener has said [...] Abilene was running over and bursting out at the sides with the double-distilled essence of depravity. | ||
Sun. Times (Perth) 27 Feb. 9s/8: The idea that our England XI [...] cannot pace this team [...] is simple tosh; double-distilled tosh. |
2. (Aus.) excellent, the very best.
Australian (Sydney) 28 Oct. 3/2: [headline] The Double-Distilled; or Procession Extraordinary. | ||
Jacques Strop II i: Isn’t that the tippy? don’t I keep it up like a double distilled gentleman, eh? | ||
Williamstown Chron. (Vic.) 24 Jan. 4/1: When a woman loves, she loves with a double-distilled devotedness. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Oct. 43/2: [I]n the glorious days of lambing down, when Jerry was younger and grew fat and independent, he dispensed some astonishing mixtures – known as [...] double-distilled lightning, mulga rum and blue-murder rousers. | ||
Shearer’s Colt 29: What will a double-distilled fool like you do for a living if he leaves the service? |
(US) to challenge defiantly.
DN I 229: Children in quarrellling say, ‘I dare you,’ ‘I double-dare you,’ ‘I black dog dare you,’ ‘I double dog dare you,’ ‘I double black dog dare you’. | ||
Book News 16 105: Law, ef I tuck 'em that double dog- dare thar wouldn't be enough o' yore grease left to oil a watch. | ||
Montana News (MT) 31 Aug. 4/3: They dared and double dog dared the big man to show himself again. | ||
DN III:iv 305: dog-dare, double-dog-dare, v. To challenge defiantly. | ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in||
Dly Admoreite (OK) 13 Oct. 4/5: I double-dog dare anybody to make me a cash offer on my Ardmore property. | ||
Sat. Eve. Post 6 Dec. 112/4: I’ll just double-dog dare you to run your dog against mine. | ||
Seraph on the Suwanee (1995) 762: Just run him off the place and double-dog dare him to foot this place again. | ||
Time 1 Aug. 14/2: I double-dog dare the Supreme Court [...] to tell us we have violated a law. | ||
Burn, Killer, Burn! 14: I dare ya! I double-dog dare ya! | ||
in DARE. | ||
Pulling Down the Barn 36: Then slowly, in a voice I have never heard before, ‘I double dog dare you.’ [...] Tom begins the chant, ‘I double dog, double dog, double dog dare you.’. | ||
Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘Go ahead, Jay. I triple fucking dog dare you’. |
see under dong n.1
(drugs) a mixture of amphetamine and LSD.
DRUG-ARM Aus. 🌐 Slang Terms: double dreads Amphetamine and LSD mixture. double zero Hashish. |
1. a type of purse.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 30/1: He [...] told us he had just seen a b—y fine ‘double-ender kicked’ by a rousing fat old ‘moll’. |
2. a skeleton key.
Autobiog. of a Gipsey 422: A tin box containing a varied assortment of skeleton-keys with wards at both ends, termed ‘double-enders,’ and a bunch of wire picklocks known in the trade as ‘spiders’. |
3. a fist.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 139/2: The old fellow seeing himelf at a safe distance from Til’s double-enders. gave vent to his disappointment in pretty round terms. |
see separate entry.
see under fucking adj.
(US) bisexual.
in Letter from My Father (1978) 144: Helen [...] was fairly promiscuous as well as being double-gaited and preferring girls to men. | ||
Pal Joey 100: Duillo is not double gaited as far as I know. | ||
in Confidential Mar. 🌐 Rumors that [Sumner] Welles was double-gaited [...] thrived, however, in the elite New York and Washington Society in which both Roosevelt and Welles were at home. | ||
Flesh Peddlers (1964) 303: Her callow outlook on things was ready for any seduction. Double gaited, wired for A.C. or D.C. | ||
Essential Lenny Bruce 217: Double-gaited? no. That’s some bullshit some faggot made up. | ||
Queens’ Vernacular. | ||
J.G. Dunne in N.Y. Rev. of Bks XXX:15 13 Oct. n.p.: A genial ex-communist who could not keep his hands off AWOL servicemen, a condition made unexpectedly poignant by the repeated droll allegations in the Garden that liberals were double-gaited, limp-wristed, and generally light on their feet. | ||
Austin Chronicle 15 Mar. 🌐 What salon owner’s double-gaited ways are the consternation of all his boyfriends and girlfriends ... not to mention his wife? |
(UK juv.) insult aimed at a spectacles-wearer.
OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 double-glazing n. tart reminders to those with specs. |
very fat.
DSUE (1984) 334/2: from ca. 1820. |
(US) marriage; usu. as jump in a double harness, take on a double harness, to get married; run in double harness, to dance with a partner; thus double harness, v., to work together.
Lexington Observer and Reporter 2 June n.p.: We soon hitch’d traces to trot in double harness [DA]. | ||
Frank Fairlegh (1878) 133: You mean one of those white-muslined young ladies, who is to run in double harness with me, I suppose? | ||
Kate Coventry (1865) 120: Lucky dog – pretty cousin – double harness. | ||
Comic Songs 20: Now a fellow’s running in double harness. | ‘I Should Like To’||
Bulletin (Sydney) 6 June 7/1: [He] fell deeply and violently in love with a gushing young creature […]. He had the malady so badly that nothing short of running in double harness could effect a cure. | ||
N.Z. Observer and Free Lance (Auckland) 20 Mar. 23/2: We hear that M.K. and D.Mc. are soon to run in double harness. | ||
Sporting Times 22 Feb. 2/3: The pair have decided that they like one another, and are ready to run in double harness. | ||
Dead Bird (Sydney) 19 Apr. 5/3: Brown had been married about a month [...] when he met that incorrigible joker ‘Early Bird.’ ‘Hello!’ said the fly one, how are you getting on in double harness, Brown, old boy?’. | ||
Society Snapshots 113: Dear little woman, she kicked over the traces very early in the running; . . .always says she was never meant to go in double harness. | ||
I Need The Money 13: When are you and Alice going to trot in double harness. | ||
N.Y. Eve. Journal 2 May 18: They haven’t landed us for that double harness stunt. | in||
Truth (Sydney) 26 Feb. 12/4: Men they say (at least at present) / Don't want wives as once they used; / And the run of double harness / It are werry much abuse. | ||
Perrysburg Jrnl (Wood Co., OH) 22 May 2/2: Any time you want to frame up with me, working Double harness, I’m your Pippin. | ||
Sun & N.Y. Herald 6 June 66/2: How’s the trotting in double harness, Perc? | ||
Hustling Hobo 340: She and I jest went right into double harness most a year ago. | ||
L.A. Times 7 May 51/2: He and wife, Elsa Lanchester, doubler-harness it in the same picture. | ||
Mirror (Perth) 1 May 14/3: Evidently the Bridles didn’t get along at all well in double harness. | ||
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | ||
Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 71: ‘You’re a married man yourself, I take it.’ The salesman wasn’t. He’d tried the double harness once and it hadn’t worked. |
(US black) very clever, exceptionally intelligent.
Voices from Slavery (1970) 257: He was what we called a ‘double-headed nigger’ – he could read and write, and he knowed so much. | [ex slave] in Yetman||
Hoodoo (1970) I 280: A white fellow came to me and asked me to go with him down to one of these double-head doctors [...] We goes down and she [the double-head doctor] fixed him. She told his fortune and told him what to do and stopped him from going to court. |
1. a double measure or occurrence of anything.
letter 31 May in Tomlinson Rocky Mountain Sailor (1998) 323: I’m on your third letter now—the double-header . | ||
Sweet Thursday (1955) 255: double-header, double feature programme, two games on the same day. | ||
Semi-Tough 168: ‘Wasn’t that the same night that Bubba Littleton tore the pay phone out of the wall?’ ‘Sure was,’ said Barbara Jane. ‘And threw the Coke machine down two flights of stairs. Double-header’. | ||
Clockers 118: ‘Well, it’s kind of indoors and outdoors.’ ‘What, doubleheader?’. |
2. (Aus.) a double measure of a drink; also attrib.
Hibiscus Heart 160: ‘He doesn’t drink, does he?’ ‘No: not more than any of us! Has a wad occasionally . . . Sometimes a double-header . . . but I’ve never seem him helpless’. | ||
Caddie 257: ‘I’ll get you a drink,’ I said and hurried to the bar, and returned quickly with a double-header brandy. | ||
Breathing Spaces 81: I’ve brought us a couple of double-headers. |
3. mutual oral-genital stimulation, a sixty-nine n. (1)
Queens’ Vernacular 182: to practice orogenitalism [...] double header. |
4. (US) a second act of intercourse with a prostitute in one session.
(con. 1920s) Legs 93: I’ll give you a free ride. But we better get started. If we take too long, old Rosie will accuse me of giving you a double-header and holding out her end. |
the buttocks; cite 1678 used of a fat person.
Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 13: When Æol pluck’d th Plug / from the Muzzle of his double Jug, / The Winds burst forth. | ||
Sir Patient Fancy V i: You’re a Dutch Butter-ferkin, a Kilderkin, a Double Jug. | ||
Midnight Spy (c.1929) 20: Another recommended Mr Deputy Doublejug, as a worthy candidate. | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions. | ||
, | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn). | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
a bisexual.
Sex Variants. | ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry||
Homosexual Generation Ch. xvi: A double life man: One who cares for men and women at the same time. Most male homosexuals hate the very look of a woman. | ||
(ref. to 1940s) Queens’ Vernacular 32: bisexual [...] double-life man (’40s). |
(N.Z. prison) underpants that have a double lining, suitable for smuggling; thus v. double-line, to smuggle contraband between the two linings, double-lined, wearing such underpants.
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 61/1: double lines n. underpants with a double layer of lining, stitched on two sides only, to leave a space between the two layers of material [...] double line v. to hide weapons or other contraband in one’s double-lined underpants to avoid detection [...] double-lined adj. wearing one’s double lines, and consequently, in a position to smuggle contraband. |
(N.Z. prison) a two-man cell.
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 60/2: double man(also double-up) n. a cell designed to accommodate two or more inmates [...] double room n. = double cell. |
(drugs) an orgasm reached through fellatio at the same time as one is smoking a pipe of crack cocaine.
Crackhouse 120: A master blaster is nothing more than a big rock of crack. But a double master blaster is something altogether different. That’s when a man is being buffed by a girl while he’s smoking on the pipe with crack in it and he comes. |
(US black) a grandmother.
Seraph on the Suwanee (1995) 854: Poor Double-Maw! Poor Grandmaw! Dead and gone! |
In compounds
(US drugs) a double dose of one’s preferred drug.
Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |
1. (US) the 55mph (88.5kph) speed limit, introduced nationally in 1974; thus the road itself.
Rat on Fire (1982) 89: Way it was, I got on the double-nickel with the load, and the rain got on the double-nickel with me. |
2. (US prison) a ten-year sentence.
(con. 1998–2000) You Got Nothing Coming 172: I was doing a double nickel in that fucking joint back in ’71 when the Shit Jumped Off. |
see separate entries.
(Aus.) the upmarket Sydney suburb of Double Bay.
Glen Cove Computing 🌐 Double Bay is one of the more exclusive suburbs of Sydney [...] the home of the expensive Cosmopolitan Centre shopping hub (nicknamed ‘Double Pay’), the Ritz Carlton, and a number of other shops, galleries, and restaurants. | ||
iVenus.com (Aus.) 🌐 Despite our penchant for the bars in Manly we finally head out to the eastern suburb of Double Bay, sometimes called Double Pay in homage to the grandeur of the foreshore mansions. |
(Aus.) thongs, in which the sole is secured to the straps by a double-plug.
Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] ‘A man’s thongs are his greatest possession’ [and] we learned to worship, above all else, our double pluggers. |
(US black) to assault in a group.
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 106: Sucker fight you, jus’ double punch ’im. Usually too scared [...] don’t have a chance. |
see separate entries.
of a mixed drink, containing a double measure of alcohol.
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
see under shot n.1
see separate entry.
(US black) one year, i.e. twelve months.
N.Y. Amsterdam News 15 Jan. 10A: Well, Home, this is the first 30 of the new double six. |
(Aus. prison) a 20-year jail sentence.
Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Double slaggin’. A twenty year prison sentence. |
see under slang n.2
(US black) emotional duplicity.
N.Y. Age 25 July 7/1: That Clyde Blackman is playing double step with Dot McKenzie and Betty Brue. | ‘Truckin ’round Brooklyn’ in
the labia minora, esp. when prominent.
Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 1834: Some terms that have survived this ignorance include [...] double-sucker, ear between the legs, cat’s head cut open, etc., for the lesserlip. |
1. two shots to the head , the coup de grace in an assassination.
Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Double tap - the firing of two successive shots, as in an execution. | (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at||
Hitmen 36: He had been hit [...] eleven times before the ‘double tap’ was applied to the back of his skull. | ||
🎵 Shotty Shane got his name from double-tap times. | ‘Alter Ego’
2. (UK gang) a shotgun.
Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Double tap - shotgun. | (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at
see under thumper n.
an act of betrayal, esp. adultery; thus as v. too betray sexually.
Long Good-Bye 154: If the rules mean anything at all any more, they mean you don’t pick a roomful of people [...] when your wife is standing right beside you and you are practically accusing her of a little double time. | ||
‘Two Boys and a Girl’ in The Night in Question 115: And Mary Ann, what about Mary Ann? [...] Rafe double-timed her and then dropped her cold. |
see squib n.2 (1)
see separate entries.
(drugs) Tuinal.
Drugs from A to Z (1970). | ||
Chronicle-Telegram (Elyria, OH) 1 May 7: Among the common commercial names for barbiturates are [...] Tuinal or ‘rainbows’ or ‘double trouble.’. | ||
Bk of Jargon 337: double trouble: Tuinal. | ||
ONDCP Street Terms 8: Double trouble — Depressants. |
(drugs) a $20 piece of crack cocaine that can be broken into two pieces, each of which is then sold for $20.
ONDCP Street Terms 8: Double ups — A $20 rock that can be broken into two $20 rocks. |
see under whammy n.
see separate entries.
see egg n.2 (3)
1. (drugs) prime grade hashish.
Cannabis Culture Issue 6 Fall 🌐 The Moroccan rating system for hash, starting with double zero, then zero, and so on, referred to the stage of sifting from which the glands were collected. | ||
DRUG-ARM Aus. 🌐 Slang Terms: double dreads Amphetamine and LSD mixture. double zero Hashish. |
2. see zero n. (1)
In phrases
(UK police/und.) untrustworthy.
No Hiding Place! 189/1: At the Double-double. Untrustworthy. |
a very unattractive young woman.
🌐 Favorite-Insults: Flipwreck / breadfruit swapper / double bag and stumper. | PummaTheGnome
(Aus. teen) of a woman, to masturbate.
OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 double click ... (your mouse...) n. techno influenced word for female masturbation. |
(US drugs) to use two styrofoam cups – one inside the other, esp. when filled drinking a codeine-based cough mixture.
🎵 Double cuppin' it, no lean just the red punch with the rum in it. | ‘I Got the Bag’
(Aus.) stockpiling multiple alcoholic drinks at any one time.
Betoota-isms 20: Double-parked [...] To be in possession of two alcoholic beverages at the same time . |
of an assassin, to administer the coup de grace with two head shots.
Blacktop Wasteland 179: [T]here was always the possibility that some shitkicker would show up at your favorite bar looking to double tap your ass. |
In exclamations
see under dash v.1