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n. 1 a twofold blow or setback; a series of two events that cause adverse effects 2 (label en by extension) a twofold boon; a series of two events that cause positive effects
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Double Whammy is a 2001 comedy/ drama film. Although intended to be released in theaters, it was ultimately distributed direct-to-video.
Double Whammy is a 1987 novel by Carl Hiaasen. The protagonist, a private investigator, is hired to expose a celebrity bass fisherman as a cheat and is drawn into a frame-up for murder. The book introduced the character of "Skink" ( Clinton Tyree), who becomes a recurring character in Hiaasen's subsequent novels.
Double Whammy may refer to:
- Double Whammy (novel), a novel by Carl Hiaasen
- Double Whammy (film), a 2001 film starring Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley
Usage examples of "double whammy".
The killer's final touch was diabolical, and not without wit: a fishing lure, the redoubtable Double Whammy, had been hooked through Dickie Lockhart's lower lip.
Until the week before he had seemed welded at the hip to Morgen Bredell, the two the undisputed class king and queen as a classic double whammy: head cheerleader and lead quarterback.
He is the author of Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Skin Tight, Native Tongue and Strip Tease and with William Montalbano, Trap Line, Powder Burn and Death in China.
She distracted the first uniformed man and put a neat double whammy on the next two, but she simply missed the fourth attendant, who came out of the galley just as Elizabeth reached Fionna Kenmare's row.
Renee was sitting in the stand, a double whammy for her, to miss the race and lose her record.
This, on top of the crutches and the wheelchair, would really be a double whammy.
And the storm looming over his shoulder looked like a double whammy.
Let Scott use him in the class for a demonstration, double whammy, that's something.
She had informed Paul of her suspicions, and he was so shocked by the double whammy of learning that his wife was both illegally pregnant and possibly scarpered that he was still in his Concord office, vacillating about what to do.
Black ley line witches got around that by fostering that payment onto someone else, usually attaching it right on the charm to give the receiver a double whammy of back luck.