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double-date

double-date {v.}, {informal}

To go on a double date; date with another couple.

John and Nancy and Mary and Bill double-date.

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double date

[double date] {n.}, {informal} A date on which two couples go together. * /John and Nancy went with Mary and Bill on a double date./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

to date

[to date] {adv.} or {adj. phr.} Up to the present time; until now. * /To date twenty students have been accepted into the school./ * /The police have not found […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[do a double take] {v. phr.}, {informal} To look again in surprise; suddenly understand what is seen or said. * /John did a double take when he saw Bill in […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

date

[date] See: [DOUBLE-DATE, TO DATE]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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