doubleheader
noun
dou·ble·head·er
ˌdə-bəl-ˈhe-dər 
1
: a train pulled by two locomotives
2
: two games, contests, or events held consecutively on the same program
Examples of doubleheader in a Sentence
The two teams will meet in a doubleheader this Saturday.
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Wednesday will be a busy night in the NBA with 11 games, including an ESPN doubleheader.
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Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
There’s also a doubleheader in Las Vegas, centered around the defending champion Florida Gators.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Wallen will play the Big House July 24-25 — a doubleheader that could draw more than 200,000 total fans to the biggest stadium in the Western Hemisphere, depending on his stage configuration.
—Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Ohtani did get into the seventh inning for a pitching staff stretched thin by Tuesday’s doubleheader-in-one Game 3.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
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Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
There’s also a doubleheader in Las Vegas, centered around the defending champion Florida Gators.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Wallen will play the Big House July 24-25 — a doubleheader that could draw more than 200,000 total fans to the biggest stadium in the Western Hemisphere, depending on his stage configuration.
—Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Ohtani did get into the seventh inning for a pitching staff stretched thin by Tuesday’s doubleheader-in-one Game 3.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Doubleheader.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doubleheader. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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doubleheader
noun
dou·ble·head·er
ˌdəb-əl-ˈhed-ər
: two games played one after the other on the same day
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