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Definition of "double-barrelled" [double-barrelled]

  • Having two separate parts often adjoined by a hyphen, eg. Wright-Phillips, Bowes-Lyon or Duncan Smith (adjective)

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Use "double-barrelled" in a sentence
  • "I have a double-barrelled surname (the only one in my family born with it - figure that out)."
  • "You got a double-barrelled snog from Rihanna and Katy Perry at the 2010 MTV Music Awards."
  • "When the story went around the water-front of how French Frank had tried to run me down with his schooner, and of how I had stood on the deck of the Razzle Dazzle, a cocked double-barrelled shotgun in my hands, steering with my feet and holding her to her course, and compelled him to put up his wheel and keep away, the water-front decided that there was something in me despite my youth."