doubles

The word “doubles” means a match or game played between two teams of two players each, especially in tennis or badminton. In plain terms, most often refers to a two-against-two match in racket sports, or, in Caribbean cooking, a popular chickpea sandwich.

Here is “doubles” used in a sentence: “They entered the mixed doubles tournament together.”

“Doubles” is a noun.

“Doubles” is a fairly common word in modern English.

“Doubles” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a match or game played between two teams of two players each, especially in tennis or badminton.

In singles, one player competes against another, while in doubles each side is a team of two players. Doubles also uses a slightly wider court, because the side tramlines (alleys) are counted as in.

Doubles is a match between two teams of two players. In mixed doubles, each team is specifically made up of one man and one woman.

The dish is called doubles because it is made with two pieces of fried flatbread (bara) sandwiching a curried chickpea filling. The name reflects the pair of flatbreads, which is also why people order "a doubles" even though it is a single snack.

In sport, "doubles" (with s) most often means the two-against-two format, as in tennis doubles. "A double" (singular) has many separate meanings, such as a lookalike, a two-base hit in baseball, or a double measure of a drink, and is not the same as the doubles format.