double over
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double over (third-person singular simple present doubles over, present participle doubling over, simple past and past participle doubled over)
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To bend over at the waist.
- doubled over in pain
- 2005, Mike Philbin, CHIMERAWORLD #1, page 113:
- A padded knee shattered my balls. I doubled over in the hallway, coughing up blood and yellow stuff I thought might be bile.
- (transitive, of paper, fabric, etc.) To fold in half.
- He doubled over the sheet of paper and wrote something on the back.