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Double up   /dˈəbəl əp/   Listen
Double up

verb
1.
Bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain.  Synonyms: double, double over.
2.
Share a room or a bed designed for only one person.
3.
Stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager.  Synonym: parlay.





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"Double up" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, cannot get through his sixteen hundred accurate and solemn pages without one slip. After accompanying him dutifully so far, we double up with uncontrollable laughter on p. 1587, for here begins the chapter which treats "of the Goose Tree, Barnacle Tree, or the Tree bearing Geese." But even here the habit of genuine observation clings to him. The picture represents a group of stalked ...
— Gossip in a Library • Edmund Gosse
... saying that which they said was what there would be seen when there was not all the attendance that there would be when some were looking. They did not rest with that authentication. They did not double up. There was not the complication of the same when there was that separation. It did ...
— Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein - With Two Shorter Stories • Gertrude Stein
... reckon," Bill responded. "Varmints will leave me any time when there's fresh bait handy. That's why I likes to double up. That there Saint Louee drummer carried off most of 'em from this gent's bed, so ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin
... had grabbed by the hair made desperate lunges at him from below with a sharply pointed arrow. He succeeded in slightly wounding him in several places. Tyope kicked him in the abdomen, causing him to double up at once. Regardless of the pain in the right hand Tyope succeeded in grasping the war-club at last. With it he directed several blows at the head of the enemy, but they were so weak that only at the third stroke did the Tehua fall. At this juncture an arrow grazed Tyope's temple. He looked ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... Dave managed to get his opponent by the throat, and he forced Porton's head backward against a large stone. In the meantime, however, the rascal managed to double up one of his legs, and he gave Dave a shove in the stomach which sent him rolling over on ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer


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