Meanings
plural doubleheaders
- alternativeAlternative form of double-header.
Caglianone ripped Miles Mikolas’ curveball into the right-field corner for an RBI double that scored Salvador Perez in the fourth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Cardinals.
2025 June 6, Joe Harris, “Royals rookie Jac Caglianone gets first career hit and RBI”, in Associated Press, archived from the original on 07 Jun 20251 more example
There would be, on Saturday, June 10, an old-fashioned, conventional doubleheader, two games for a single-admission price. A common practice in Major League Baseball for a good part of the 20th century, traditional doubleheaders fell out of favor by the late 1980s, when rising attendance and escalating salaries led baseball owners to abandon them as an unnecessary giveaway since it amounted to a game’s being played free of charge.
2017 September 6, Pat Borzi, “The Rays Are Playing a Traditional Doubleheader. By Choice.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020
Synonyms & antonyms
nountwo games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
doubleheader. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doubleheader
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