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double dip
1. The process or result of dipping or immersing twice (freq. attrib.); spec. (N. Amer.), an ice-cream cone made with two scoops or portions of ice cream.
1936Ice Cream Rev. Sept. 62/1 The fellows who have..small double-dip stands..are having a hard time. 1940R. Suttle How to operate Retail Ice Cream Stores 26a Double-Dip Cones, 18 Double-dip cones per gallon. 1965Tamarack Rev. xxxiv. 6 He sprinkles orange and red and chocolate flakes of candy on top of the double-dips; this costs a nickel. 1971Engineering Apr. 63/1 For large articles..a double-dip technique may be employed; this entails immersing each half in turn.
2. fig. and transf.
1963Lebende Sprachen VIII. 106/1 [Driver's vocabulary] Double dip. 1965Wall St. Jrnl. 8 Jan. 2/4 The so-called ‘double dip’, in which some state laws permit a double payment of jobless benefits for a single period of unemployment. 1973W. Sheed People will always be Kind ii. v. 319 Hank Messer turned on me with Casey's extra double-dip sincere look. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) v. 182 A frozen bulbousness—double-dip, Reddi-Whip accumulations of weathered lava. 1984Christian Science Monitor 17 May 27/3 His double-dip soliloquy and her banana split of an answer..are some of the delights of..[the] second act.
Hence double-dipper, double-dipping, esp. the practice of holding a second job, usu. in government or municipal service, (or of obtaining retirement benefit from this) while enjoying a pension from one's former employment.
1940B. Leach Potter's Bk. vi. 145, I use double dipping whenever I can grip the pot by the foot sufficiently firmly{ddd}By this method..the inside and outside of a pot are glazed with one movement. 1975Harper's Mag. Sept. 28/2 At Congressional hearings called to investigate this ‘double dipping’, it was revealed that then FEO head William Simon had repeatedly..been urged to remove Bowen. 1976Graphic (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) 19 Aug. 4a/3 Johnson, a double-dipper who gets paid by the state as a legislator and also receives state money as a school man. 1978Detroit Free Press 14 Apr. 10a/2 ‘Double-dipping’, in which retired military personnel draw their pensions while working in other government jobs, would be prohibited. 1981Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Oct. 26/1 That phenomenon known as ‘double dipping’ whereby the individual taxpayer is given tax concessions aimed at encouraging him to provide for his own retirement only to..put himself on the pension. 1986N.Y. Times 8 June iv. 6/5 The arrangement..made Admiral White a ‘double dipper’, paying him a Federal contract fee of $29,600 a month. |