Double Time Definition
double-time
English
Verb
double-time (third-person singular simple present double-times, present participle double-timing, simple past and past participle double-timed)
- (intransitive) (military) to march at double time.
- (transitive) (military) to order troops to march at double time.
- ...after ten or fifteen minutes of preparation, he stopped the artillery and instructed Corporal Lamb to double-time his platoon to the intermediate knoll under cover of fire from the machine guns. — "Combat Actions in Korea" (1954) [1]
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