double date

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English

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Noun

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double date (plural double dates)

  1. A (romantic) date that two couples go on together.

Verb

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double date (third-person singular simple present double dates, present participle double dating, simple past and past participle double dated)

  1. To go on a double date.
    • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 64:
      The trouble was, I knew that guy Stradlater’s technique. That made it even worse. We once double-dated, in Ed Banky’s car, and Stradlater was in the back, with his date, and I was in the front with mine.