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Democratic presidential candidates debated in the second half of a New Hampshire doubleheader.
double-header also doubleheader (dŭb'əl-hĕd'ər)
The noun doubleheader has one meaning:
Meaning #1: two instead of one
Synonyms: twin bill, double feature
雙車頭火車, A train pulled by two locomotives.
連賽Sports. Two games or events held in succession on the same program, especially in baseball.
Doubleheader is used by network television to refer to two games in any sport aired back-to-back on the same network, even though they do not involve the same two teams (three such games may be referred to as a tripleheader, this scenario being encountered most frequently in basketball). A doubleheader purposely coincides with a league's scheduling of "early" and "late" games. In North America, games usually start at the same time period in different time zones (Eastern and Pacific).
adjective [before noun], adverb
close together and facing in opposite directions:
UK back-to-back terraced houses
The office was full of computers, and we had to sit back-to-back in long rows.
ADJECTIVE
sprint
━━ n., vi. 短距離競走; ラストスパート; 短時間の大活動.━━ vt. （短距離を）全力疾走する.
sprint・er ━━ n. 短距離選手, スプリンター.
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