Usually means: Substitute actor for specific scenes.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. body double: Merriam-Webster
  2. body double: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. body double: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. body double: Collins English Dictionary
  5. body double: Wiktionary
  6. body double: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. body double: Dictionary.com
  8. Body Double (novel), Body Double, Body double (disambiguation), Body double (film), Body double: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. body double: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. body double: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (body double)

noun:  A film stand-in for an actor, in scenes not involving the face, especially during scenes of nudity, or of dangerous activity.
noun:  A political decoy; a person employed to impersonate a politician, in order to draw attention away from the real person or to take risks on their behalf.
noun:  (psychology) A person who is present nearby — or virtually connected to — a person with ADHD in order to increase their attention and focus.
verb:  To act as a body double.
verb:  To stand-in for an actor in a film.
verb:  To impersonate a politician in order to draw attention away from the real person or to take risks on their behalf.
verb:  (psychology) To be present nearby — or virtually connected to — a person with ADHD in order to increase their attention and focus.

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