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double bubble
noun- an amount that is twice as much, especially money UK
A rhyming play on “double”. - Bought up a load of council flats from his mum’s friends in Wandsworth under the Thatcher thing, let the tenants stay there rent free and then flogged them off for double bubble when they started dying off. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 137, 1999
- overtime at double rate UK, 2005
- A nice bit of double bubble for the Bill [police] herding potheads around[.] — Brian Preston, Pot Planet, p. 121, 2002
- [T]ell whoever they want that they’re doing an hour’s double-bubble. — Danny King, Milo’s Marauders, p. 139, 2005
- a water pipe with two channels, used for smoking marijuana US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Spring 1998
- cocaine in a smokable form US
Marketed as being twice as potent when inhaled. - — Peter Johnson, Dictionary of Street Alcohol and Drug Terms, p. 63, 1993
- — Nick Constable, This is Cocaine, p. 181, 2002
- in prison, interest demanded on an advance of drugs, tobacco or any other form of prison currency UK
With variant “double back”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 47, 1996
- a very attractive girl US
Teen slang. - — Newsweek, p. 28, 8 October 1951
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