daily double
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- noun
- /ˈdeɪli ˈdʌbəl/
- Jargon
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doble diario
- Winning the daily double can significantly increase your payout at the track.
Examples
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If you pick the winners of both races, you could win a daily double today.
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And the guy says, you know, you could get a daily double for less.
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Maybe somebody hit the daily double.
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I knew a guy once, comes to the track, hits a $75 daily double.
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" I put two dollars on a dog named Telepathy for the daily double and got back four times my money.
Fiction book (1998) -
I don't want to miss the daily double.
Fiction book (2000) -
Ken was doing very well and the risk was Ken gets a Daily Double, bets big, gets it right, he's going to be well ahead.
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He had bet forty dollars to win and had played the eight in a forty-dollar daily double with the winner of the last race.
Fiction book (2000) -
She placed a daily double bet on the two featured horse races this afternoon.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'daily' (each day) and 'double' (twofold) give a clear clue that the term involves two things occurring in a day, so a learner might infer a two-part or twofold daily item. However, the precise meaning—that it is a specific type of horse-racing bet selecting winners of two designated races the same day—is a domain-specific convention that is not fully predictable from the words alone and would likely require exposure.
Etymology
Daily double comes from horse racing. You place one bet that picks the winners of two races on the same day, so daily means 'same day' and double means 'two wins', which is why a daily double is a bet where you must choose both winners to win.