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Definition of Double dutch

1. Noun. An incomprehensible talk.

2. Noun. The difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners.

Definition of Double dutch

1. Noun. Incomprehensible language. ¹

2. Noun. A language game akin to pig Latin. ¹

3. Noun. A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers. ¹

4. Noun. (colloquial) Sex using a condom and the contraceptive pill at the same time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Dutch

double-talk double-team double-time double-tongued double-tonguing double-track double-trouble double-u double-ues double-voided specimen

double-whammies double-whammy double-wide double-wides double A-side double Gloucester double S double U double acrostic double act

double action double acts double acute accent double acute accents double adapter double adapters double adaptor double agent double agents

Literary usage of Double dutch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1908)
"WHO'S for the land of double dutch, Where all things go in twos, ... We'll tell the guard we're under age, The double dutch are double-faced, ..."

2. Greenhouse Management: A Manual for Florists and Flower Lovers on the by Levi Rawson Taft (1898)
"... and by proper care in selection of varieties and in handling can be had in bloom all winter. Daffodils do not flower, as a FI0.27. double dutch m]p ..."

3. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"Each glyph in FF double dutch (1992) is the result of a juxtaposition of the roman and the italic of the same character - both ..."

4. Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: A Selected Listing by Ginny Moore Kruse (1991)
"double dutch is an organized team sport for 5-12th grade girls and boys in many cities of the US In 1984, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was one of the cities ..."

5. The slang dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"Dutch, or double dutch, gibberish, or any foreign tongue. "To talk double dutch backwards on a Sunday ' is a humorous locution for extraordinary linguistic ..."

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