double up
Verb
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Verb
double up
- (transitive) To double the quantity, amount or duration of something
- I'm going to double up my enlistment.
- (poker, by extension, intransitive) To double one's amount of chips by winning an all-in pot.
- (intransitive) To bend, bend over; to fold; to stoop.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde:
- "It is well, then that we should be frank," said the other. "We both think more than we have said; let us make a clean breast. This masked figure that you saw, did you recognise it?" / "Well, sir, it went so quick, and the creature was so doubled up, that I could hardly swear to that," was the answer. "But if you mean, was it Mr. Hyde?--why, yes, I think it was!"
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde:
- (intransitive) To have a secondary use.
- This unfolding sofa doubles up as a bed.
- 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 7:
- A little fearfully now, Pollyanna felt her way to these bags, selected a nice fat soft one (it contained Miss Polly's sealskin coat) for a bed; and a thinner one to be doubled up for a pillow, and still another (which was so thin it seemed almost empty) for a covering.
- (baseball, transitive) To get the second out in a double play, typically referring to getting an out by beating a runner back to a base (often by throwing) after a fly ball has been caught
- Jones snared the liner and then stepped on the bag to double up the runner.
- (intransitive) To employ double the usual resources for a particular purpose.
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