double-barrelled

alternative double-barrel

1. not comparableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun.
2. not comparableTwofold, having a double purpose or nature.

   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.

   1972, Alexander Keith, A thousand years of Aberdeen

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   Order-maintenance crackdowns are not an alternative but rather an addition to the severe penalties that dominate criminal justice […] What we are left with today is a system of severe punishments for major offenders and severe treatments for minor offenders and ordinary citizens, especially minorities, a double-barreled approach with significant effects on large numbers of our citizenry.

   2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order

   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 ...

   2011, Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson, Scandal!: An Explosive Exposé of the Affairs, Corruption and Power Struggles of the Rich and Famous, Random House, →ISBN

3. not comparableHaving two separate parts, often adjoined by a hyphen (or sometimes a space).

   Almost unbelievably, some authors have formed the erroneous conception that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is actually the double-barrelled surname of the dictionary’s editor.

   2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 488

   Synonyms: hyphenated

4. figurativelynot comparableForceful, powerful (like a double-barrelled shotgun).

   Range Rover ran an ad campaign referring to grouse shooting with the line: “There’s only one car for the double-barrelled.”

   2023 November 5, Andrew Anthony, “Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   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, “She trafficked in sin and souffle”, in Townsville Daily Bulletin, Queensland, Australia