noun
1. an incomprehensible talk
• Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
2. the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners
• Hypernyms: ↑jump rope
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noun [noncount]
1 US : the activity of jumping over two jump ropes that two people are swinging in circles in opposite directions
The girls were playing double Dutch on the sidewalk.
2 chiefly Brit, informal : language that cannot be understood
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speech or writing that is impossible to understand, and that seems to be nonsense
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These instructions are written in double Dutch.
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double Dutchsee Dutch B. n. 2 b.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.