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double

A double portion of alcohol. I'll have a whiskey, Tom. Make it a double. A: "You're coming to the bar with us, right?" B: "Oh yeah. After the day I've had, I need a double!" A: "Scotch for you, sir?" B: "Yeah, and make it a double. I need to forget about my life for a while."
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double

verb

double

1. n. a drink consisting of two servings of liquor. Sam usually has two doubles on the way home.
2. Go to double saw(buck).
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Pabriga, Regie Reznan - team doubles / chinlone (linking / nonrepetition secondary)
"I don't see doubles even happening the way things are going and there has got to be some serious discussion about it," added McEnroe, winner of five Wimbledon doubles titles - four with Peter Fleming and one with Michael Stich - between 1979 and 1992.
Girl's Doubles: Alis a Kleybanova (Rus) & Sania Mirza (Ind)
In Game 2, Abby Pyburn (double) and Katie Sorenson (triple) had extra-base hits, and Amber Blake pitched a 5-inning 1-hitter with 12 strikeouts and 1 walk.
My criteria are that a player either has a large number of national championship wins and/or runner-up finishes in singles and/or in doubles where he/she was the dominant or equal partner; or by observation that he/she had outstanding abilities and facets of his/her game manifested in numbers of wins over multiple champions.
Ashlyn Kitter (double) and Becca Geiyer (2 RBI, 2 stolen bases) both had a pair of hits for Warren, and Carissa Topoinski drove in 2 runs.
Zion-Benton's Ashley Zappa was 4-for-5 with 2 doubles.
Mundelein 19, Lake Forest 1: Kira Buckner went 4-for-4 with a triple, double, 5 RBI and 5 runs scored, as the Mustangs cruised in North Suburban Conference action.
Vernon Hills 5, Glenbrook South 1: In their first game of the day, the Cougars got 2-for-3 efforts from Jordyn Smith (3 stolen bases), Madison Johnson (double) and Lauren Ellis (RBI).
Evans, now based in Cardiff, will compete in the women's doubles, mixed doubles and singles.
Why are the top English makers keeping busy producing new doubles as are their lower-priced competitors in Europe and America?
" We have submitted entries for men's and women's singles, doubles and also mixed doubles which has been acknowledged by the ITF," he said.
The former World Champion produced a determined display against the No10 seed, who eventually paid the price for two missed doubles for the match in the ninth leg.
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