DOUBLE DATE Definition & Meaning

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double date

noun

Informal.

a date on which two couples go together.

double-date

[ duhb-uhl-deyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

double-dated, double-dating.

to take part in a double date.

verb (used with object)

double-dated, double-dating.

to accompany (someone) on a double date:
They double-dated the two sisters.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of double date¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Origin of double date²

First recorded in 1945–50

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Idioms and Phrases

A social engagement in which two couples go together, as in They went on a double date with her brother and his girlfriend . [c. 1920]

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He asked her out on a double date with their pets: “Coffee and dogs,” she told Lifestyle Asia in August 2023, won her over “from the get-go.”

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So that makes the double date episode with Gregory as this big kind of jealous moment — it would have been nice to have that happen over three episodes.

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He asked her out on a double date: coffee with their dogs — her poodle Herbert and his French bulldog, Humphrey.

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Page Six reported Tuesday that 10 days after Harris filed for divorce, she and Bush were spotted on a double date in New York with Stacy London and her girlfriend, Cat Yezbak.

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Shortly afterward, the two were out and about on a double date with their beaus.

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