double-dog-dare

present singular third person double-dog-dares · participle present double-dog-daring · participle past double-dog-dared · past double-dog-dared

1. USalternativeinformalAlternative form of double dog dare.

   We stopped to eat lunch by a beautiful river pool at the top of a towering waterfall. After a skinny-dip, Nora dared me—double-dog-dared me, to be precise—to jump off the falls, which were at least thirty-five feet high.

   2010, Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, New York, N.Y.: Spiegel & Grau, published 2011, →ISBN, page 12

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   They had walked almost a mile outside of town, to the water tower that had elmwood springs written on it in huge black letters, with the express intention of climbing all the way to the top. […] [H]e and Monroe had double-dog-dared each other to climb it, so there was no turning back. Secretly both of them were a little nervous. Scared that they might chicken out at the last minute.

   2002 October, Fannie Flagg, “The Water Tower”, in Standing in the Rainbow (Elmwood Springs; 2), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 17

   Edward Jay Roberts didn't get to be an acknowledged leader without three necessary assets: brains, guts, and an almost unnatural absence of fear. No one ever double-dog-dared him anything, because one dare was always sufficient.

   2005, David Chapman, ‘Til Summer Comes […], Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 74

plural double-dog-dares

1. USalternativeinformalAlternative form of double dog dare.