Complete Definition of "double-time"

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Verb
en-verb|double-tim|ing

  1. intransitive (military) to march at double time.
  2. transitive (military) to order troops to march at double time.

#*...after ten or fifteen minutes of preparation, he stopped the artillery and instructed Corporal Lamb to double-time his platoon to the intermediate knoll under cover of fire from the machine guns. � "Combat Actions in Korea" (1954) 1

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