Meaning & use
Doubleheader
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Two games or events played consecutively on the same day, typically between the same two teams.
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The fans stayed for the entire doubleheader, watching both games back to back.
Rain postponements forced the league to schedule a doubleheader for Saturday.
A note on using this word
Originally a 19th-century railway term for a train pulled by two locomotives, "doubleheader" was later borrowed by baseball to describe two games in one day.
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twin bill
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