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Double time   /dˈəbəl taɪm/   Listen
Double time

noun
1.
A fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog.
2.
A doubled wage (for working overtime).
adverb
1.
At a faster speed.  Synonym: double quick.





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"Double time" Quotes from Famous Books



... might be a fire some place. It seemed a long time before the companies got in line, and then I noticed that instead of fire buckets they were carrying rifles. Directly every company started off on double time and disappeared in between two sets of barracks at one corner of the parade ground. Then everything was unusually quiet; not a human being to be seen except the sentry at the guardhouse, who ...
— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe
... its time. Through to no purpose. In a week, or a year, the wounded flesh, or soul, has reasserted its right, shut down on the tooth, making a harder surface than ever, a cicatrized crust, out of which it will take double time and double strength for the tooth ...
— Bits About Home Matters • Helen Hunt Jackson


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