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double take
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double take
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double take
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double takes
double take
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double takes
Learner's definition of DOUBLE TAKE
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an act of quickly looking at something that is surprising or unusual a second time after looking at it a moment earlier
His parents
did a double take
when he came home with a tattoo.
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