double date

noun

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

Meanings

noundouble date (plural double dates)

plural double dates

  1. A (romantic) date that two couples go on together.
verbdouble date (third-person singular simple present double dates, present participle double dating, simple past and past participle double dated)

present singular third person double dates · participle present double dating · participle past double dated · past double dated

  1. To go on a double date.

    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.

    1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 64

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