Usually means: Trigger both cocks and fires.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. double-action: Merriam-Webster
  2. double-action: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double-action: Wordnik
  4. double-action, double action: Wiktionary
  5. double-action: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. double-action, double action: Dictionary.com
  7. Double Action, Double-action, Double action: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. double action: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. double action: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (double action)

adjective:  (firearms, primarily of revolvers) Requiring only a trigger pull to both cock and fire.
noun:  (firearms) A trigger mechanism requiring a single pull to both cock and fire.

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