dou·ble·head·er

[duhb-uhl-hed-er]
noun
1.
Sports.
a.
two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession.
b.
two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
2.
two performances or two events occurring one after the other or within a short time of each other.
3.
a railroad train pulled by two locomotives.

Origin:
1895–1900, Americanism; double + head + -er1

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doubleheader

noun
two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) [syn: twin bill
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Doubleheader is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
League fees vary based on team residency, and single or doubleheader status.
It's actually kind of a doubleheader of the anniversaries related to evolution.
They used five relievers the night before a doubleheader.
The league will play seven weeks of regular season doubleheader games followed by a single-elimination tournament.
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