Crossword clues for double-decker
double-decker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Double-decker \Dou"ble-deck"er\, n.
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(Naut.)
1. A man-of-war having two gun decks.
A tenement house having two families on each floor.
A biplane a["e]roplane or kite. [Colloq.]
anything having two decks or levels, as a bus with two levels for passengers. In older vehicles, less often today, the upper deck was open, as on street cars.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. A vehicle, usually a bus or coach, with two decks. n. A vehicle, usually a bus or coach, with two decks.
WordNet
Usage examples of "double-decker".
There were only five platforms in the main terminal building, but each of them were bustling with waiting passengers when Renne and Tarlo stepped out from the first-class double-decker carriage.
While the dogs rode in the back, Bill Taylor and I each had our own compartment, which were first class compared to the double-deckers assigned to the men.
Jaguar was already parked up the street, a marked contrast to the econoboxes that belonged to the folks who lived in the double-deckers around us.
The Rose Diary Coastown, San Dominica In the middle of a world of hack-arounds-fruit and straw vendors, fruits, package-rate tourists, cabdrivers by the gross, beeping double-decker buses-Carrie Rose looked around Politician Square and tried to single out one poor bugger who had to be sacrificed that morning.
A double-decker London bus had been driven onto the field to transport the arriving passengers to SHAEF Billeting.
They were wooden fire traps and the double-decker bunks were relics of an earlier day as well, but they continued to adequately serve the purpose of temporary shelter for units preparing to embark from Pope Air Force Base.
Now there's a double-decker baseball stadium, an athletic field house, championship clay tennis courts, beach volleyball (sixty miles from the nearest natural beach), and a parking lot for thirty-five hundred automobiles.
I had it vaguely in mind to head for the Midlands, since I had given this noble if challenging region of the country pretty short shrift on my previous foragings, but as I was standing there a faded red double-decker bus announcing WIGAN in its little destination window pulled up beside me and the matter was out of my hands.
The traffic moved again, and she started up and followed closely behind a battered red double-decker bus.
The traffic had begun to move again, there was a cream double-decker bus slewed across the road.
You can park a double-decker bus between the parallel bars,”.
A red double-decker bus lay on its side, crushing the cars beneath it.
Gears the size of a double-decker bus chewed their way around the circuit of even larger gears whose full extent was hidden, but whose toothed rims pushed in through vast slots in the walls.
He reached the corner and made to cross Camden High Street on the run, head down, at the same moment as a double-decker bus approached.
The Humber was entering the square from the Strand and as I watched it nudged a black cab aside, then swung round a double-decker bus.