double Dutch
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nounDefinition of DOUBLE DUTCH
1
: unintelligible language
2
: the jumping of two jump ropes rotating in opposite directions simultaneously
See Examples of DOUBLE DUTCH
- The girls were playing double Dutch on the sidewalk.
- <the fast-talking con man spouts some double Dutch, and it is only afterwards that the victim realizes that he's given two twenties for a ten>
First Known Use of DOUBLE DUTCH
1876
Related to DOUBLE DUTCH
- Synonyms
- abracadabra, babble, blabber, burble, gibberish, double-talk, drivel, gabble, gibber, jabber, jabberwocky, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, prattle, slobber
Rhymes with DOUBLE DUTCH
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