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• a  having two barrels mounted side by side
• s  having two purposes; twofold

• Wall Street Journal editorial page with double-barrelled hit.
• A Japanese who might well have been flushed with double-barrelled victory, War Minister Lieut.
• The Body Snatcher (RKO-Radio) is a double-barrelled horror picture (Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) which Producer Val Lewton and his associates have developed from the Robert .

• double-barreled

• single-barreled

News & Articles

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• Top GAA star begged for his life as love rival prepared to pull trigger
  A top GAA player pleaded for his life as a love rival prepared to blast him with a double-barrelled shotgun in a quiet Dundalk housing estate.
  June 29, 2013 - Irish Central
• This Supernova Had A ‘Delayed Detonation’
  A star relatively nearby Earth went kablooie in 2008, some 28,000 light-years away from us. Sharp-eyed astronomers, as they will do, trained their telescopes on it to snap pictures and take observations. Now, fresh observations from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that supernova was actually a double-barrelled explosion. (...)Read the rest of This Supernova [...]
  June 27, 2013 - Universe Today

Quotes

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• David Swain in Stuff.co.nz
  Swain agrees: "This is all well and good for the couple that hyphenates but what do you do when a double-barrelled marries a double-barrelled? It's fine for the parents but problematic for the next generation. Unless there are rules, which is what...
• Simon Wiesenthal in Toronto Sun
  We have a double-barrelled problem on social networks. On the one hand, we have cyber bullying. One person posted online it was beat-up-red-heads day and it happened,Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Wiesenthal centre said yesterday. "Then there...
• Tim Brooke-Taylor in Sydney Morning Herald
  In reality, we were all anti-establishment,says Brooke-Taylor. "But I had the double-barrelled name so I was always going to play the Tory."