Usually means: Increase commitment despite potential risks.
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  1. double down: Merriam-Webster
  2. double down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double-down: Wordnik
  4. double-down, double down: Wiktionary
  5. Double Down (Arrowverse), Double Down (comics), Double Down (film), Double Down (sandwich), Double Down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Double-Down, double down: Urban Dictionary

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  1. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (double down)

verb:  (gambling, intransitive) To double one's wager, particularly, the name of a specific doubling bet allowed in blackjack.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To significantly increase a risk, investment, or other commitment; to respond to a challenge (e.g. to an opinion) by reinforcing or extending one's position rather than moderating it. [with on ‘something’]

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