double-dip

plural double-dips · alternative double dip

1. informalAn ice cream cone with two scoops of ice cream.

   We each got double-dips with chocolate on top and strawberry on the bottom.

2. roller coastersA hill that levels off for a while about halfway down.
3. abbreviationellipsiseconomicsEllipsis of double-dip recession (“return to recession after a short period of growth”).

   The UK is currently experiencing a double-dip.

   Synonyms: W-shaped recession

4. informalThe drawing of a government pension or benefit for one job while also working in the government at another job, or of two pensions at the same time as a result of reaching the retirement criteria twice for the same entity.

present singular third person double-dips · participle present double-dipping · participle past double-dipped · past double-dipped · alternative double dip

1. informalTo dip a piece of food (e.g. a chip) into a communal sauce container after already having taken a bite of the food.

   I don't mind double-dipping when eating with my family, but I'd be embarrassed to do it when out with friends.

2. informalTo be illegitimately compensated a second time for the same activity.

   He got caught double-dipping by billing the government directly as well as the primary contractor.

   1 more example

   They worried about the possibility that some forced laborers, in particular Jewish survivors, might be double-dipping, that is, that they might be collecting compensation for their work as forced laborers while continuing to receive payments as Holocaust survivors and thus absorbing funds that should be directed toward other groups of victims […]

   2006, Wulf Kansteiner, In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz

3. informalTo draw a government pension or benefit for one job while also working in the government at another job, or to draw two pensions at the same time as a result of reaching the retirement criteria twice for the same entity.
4. broadcastingTo re-release a movie or TV series, sometimes as a compilation or with additional features.
5. USbusinessTo use a single debt instrument to obtain interest tax expense (and therefore a lower tax base) in two or more tax jurisdictions.
6. ball gamesTo defeat a team twice in the finals.

   SPC Ladies double-dipped the Sudbury Storm in the NSA Canadian World Series.

7. educationTo enroll in a single class which will fulfill two different requirements of a course of study.
8. video gamesTo buy the same game twice, especially on different platforms.

   I usually don't double-dip, but this port convinced me to with its additional content and improved graphics.