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dou'ble Dutch'



Slang.
unintelligible or garbled speech or language: She could have been talking double Dutch for all we understood of it.

Dou'ble Dutch'



(sometimes l.c.)
a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.

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