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double dutch

 
Dictionary: double dutch  double Dutch (dŭch) pronunciation
also n.
A game of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes swung in a crisscross formation by two turners.


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1.  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.
2.  A game of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes swung in a crisscross fashion.


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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (colloquial British) incomprehensible talk


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