Usually means: Tennis error: two missed serves.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word double fault:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. double-fault, double fault: Merriam-Webster
  2. double fault: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double fault: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. double fault: Collins English Dictionary
  5. double fault: Vocabulary.com
  6. double-fault: Wordnik
  7. double fault: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. double-fault, double fault: Wiktionary
  9. double fault: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. double-fault, double fault: Dictionary.com
  11. Double-fault, Double fault (tennis), Double fault: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. double fault: Rhymezone
  13. double fault: FreeDictionary.org
  14. double fault: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. double-fault, double fault: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. double fault: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Double fault: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Double Fault: Tennis Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Double fault: Sports Definitions

(Note: See double-fault as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (double fault)

noun:  (tennis) The missing of both the first serve and second serve, resulting in a point for the receiver.
noun:  (computing) An exception thrown by the CPU while trying to call the handler of another exception (e.g. the exception handler is invalid or the call stack has overflowed).

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