Double Dip

Double dip may refer to:

  • To put a food item (like a vegetable or tortilla chip) into a dip (food), take a bite and put it 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.
  • Double dipping, the practice of simultaneously holding multiple elected positions
  • Double Dip (confectionery), 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
  • 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.

Famous quotes containing the words double and/or dip:

    You’ve been making love to a double dose of cyanide.
    Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)