Double-header

Full definition of double-header

(plural double-headers)

(sports) A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.This afternoon we will have a double-header between the Bears and the Wolves, games at 3pm and 7:30pm.

2011, William B. Gould, IV, Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil, %22double-headers%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sORET8bZJIbImQWN9P2XBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22double-header%22|%22double-headers%22&f=false page 43,The â€²40s and â€²50s were in advance of the day of the twilight double-header, and most certainly before the more common twilight or â€œtwinightâ€ double-headers, in which the fans must leave so as to empty their seats for a new crowd which is to see the second game at a separately scheduled time.

A pair of top rank events after another, at one venue.The NRL season opener at the Olympic stadium will be a double-header: Dragons vs Eels and Souths vs Wests.The next jazz double-header at The Sound Lounge will feature the Leonie Cohen Trio and the Sam Hawkins Quartet

1991, Graeme Kent, Double Header: Atlantic City, August 1988, Boxingâ€²s Strangest Fights, 2000, %22double-headers%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZNpET9WoIND3mAWFjZ3oAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22double-header%22|%22double-headers%22&f=false page 227,It must have seemed a good idea at the time. The holders of two different versions of the world welterweight title were to top the bill against carefully selected opponents in a double header.

(fishing) The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.
(rail) A train pulled by two locomotives.

1929, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemenâ€²s Magazine, Volumes 86-87, %22double-headers%22&dq=%22double-header%22|%22double-headers%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZNpET9WoIND3mAWFjZ3oAw&redir_esc=y page 132,If this pipe is broken while running as the second engine of a double-header nothing will be lost as the operation of the distributing valve is then similar to that of a triple valve,....