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Wiktionary
double back

vb. (context idiomatic English) To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone.

WordNet
double back

v. retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back" [syn: backtrack, turn back]

Usage examples of "double back".

It'd be just like that wily fox, Diamond Jack, to split off from what was left of his gang and double back into the Breckenridge breaks.

And then I could at last shut, with a clear conscience, the door of my stateroom and get my double back into the recessed part.