What is a "double dip"?

Zbeckabee

Double dip may refer to: Double dipping, the practice of simultaneously holding multiple elected positions Double Dip (sweet), a confectionery produced by Swizzels Matlow A meteorological term referring to both an "early high" temperature and a "late low" temperature in the same day The practice of selling a media item to a consumer multiple times via a Special edition The practice of using both a tanning bed and a sunless tanning method to achieve a very dark tan. Double-dip recession, a recession shape used by economists To put a food item (like a vegetable or tortilla chip) into a dip (food), take a bite and put the chip back in. Socially taboo (as mentioned in the Seinfeld episode "The Implant") as believed to add microbes from the person's mouth into the dip. A lifeline in the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in which a contestant takes two tries at a question. If the contestant's first answer is wrong, he or she must choose from the remaining three answers, but if the second answer is also wrong, the contestant's game is over During the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, the term "double dipping" was used to refer to two Members of Parliament (generally a married couple) who live together, both claiming expenses on the rent/mortgage/expenses of the same home. It also applied where one MP claimed their original home on expenses, and the other claimed their london home on expenses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dip Oct 06 10, 7:01 PM

Datsmeharse

A slang term for a baseball "double-header", itself a slang term for teams playing twice in one day. http://varsity.thetimesnews.com/sports/game-502-first-double.html Oct 06 10, 8:02 PM

speeddemon_1

The practice of drawing two incomes from the government, usually by holding a government job and receiving a pension, as for prior military service. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/double+dipping Oct 06 10, 10:33 PM

author

I was thinking of this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-dip_recession#W-shaped_recession Quote: A W-shaped recession or "double dip" recession, occurs when the economy has a recession, emerges from the recession with a short period of growth, but quickly falls back into recession. The Early 1980s recession in the United States is cited as an example of a W-shaped recession. Oct 07 10, 7:21 PM