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What does "double Dutch" mean?
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Language that cannot be understood, gibberish, as in They might have been speaking double Dutch, for all I understood. This usage dates from the 1870s (an earlier version, however, had it as high Dutch) and is heard less often today than the synonym double talk.
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A game of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes swung in a crisscross fashion.
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