double-barrelled
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Adjective
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun.
- Twofold, having a double purpose or nature.
- 1972, Alexander Keith, A thousand years of Aberdeen:
- Alexander Taylor, a native of Stonehaven who in the later forties went to Edinburgh, where he enjoyed a double-barrelled reputation as a rhymester and as an astronomer.
- 2011, Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson, Scandal!: An Explosive Exposé of the Affairs, Corruption and Power Struggles of the Rich and Famous, Random House (→ISBN):
- Skilling came to Enron with a double-barrelled reputation: on the one hand he was known to be a cold man with a taste for macho showing-off (Enron employees nicknamed him 'Darth Vader'). On the other hand he was said to be a genius ...
- 1972, Alexander Keith, A thousand years of Aberdeen:
- (of names) Having two separate parts, often adjoined by a line (or sometimes a space), e.g. Wright-Phillips.
- Forceful, powerful (like a double-barrelled shotgun).
- 1945 November 6, Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qeensland, Australia), "She trafficked in sin and souffle":
- When the sheriff arrested [Lucy Hicks Anderson] one night, her double-barrelled reputation paid off—Charles Donlon, the town's leading banker, promptly bailed her out. Reason: He had scheduled a huge dinner party, which would have collapsed dismally with Lucy In gaol.
- 1945 November 6, Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qeensland, Australia), "She trafficked in sin and souffle":
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