double-headed

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English

Adjective

double-headed (not comparable)

  1. Having two heads.
    a double-headed serpent
    double-headed muscles
    • 2005, Ashish Pandey, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, page 212:
      Doli: Georgian double-headed cylindrical drum
  2. (numismatics) Of a coin, having a head on both sides, especially when counterfeited by being constructed from two separate coins.
  3. (rail transport) Of a train, hauled by two locomotives.
    Related terms: triple-headed
  4. (film) Synonym of sepmag (having separately recorded picture and soundtrack)

Verb

double-headed

  1. simple past and past participle of double-head