Usually means: Increase stake after a loss.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. double up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. double up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. double up: Vocabulary.com
  5. double-up: Wordnik
  6. double up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. double up: Wiktionary
  8. double up: Dictionary.com
  9. Double Up (American game show), Double Up (Canadian game show), Double Up (Mase album), Double Up (R. Kelly album), Double Up (U.S. game show), Double Up (sculpture): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. double up: Rhymezone
  11. double up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. Double up: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. double up: Free Dictionary
  14. double up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. double up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Double up: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Double Up: Investopedia
  6. Double Up: Financial dictionary

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. double up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. double up, double up, double up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Double up: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Double-up, double up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See double_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (double up)

verb:  (transitive) To double the quantity, amount or duration of something
verb:  (poker, by extension, intransitive) To double one's amount of chips by winning an all-in pot.
verb:  (intransitive) To bend, bend over; to fold; to stoop.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone) to bend over; to beat up (someone).
verb:  (intransitive) To have a secondary use.
verb:  (baseball, transitive) To get the second out in a double play, typically referring to getting an out by beating a runner back to a base (often by throwing) after a fly ball has been caught
verb:  (intransitive) To employ double the usual resources for a particular purpose; to work in pairs.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To marry or live with someone; to share a living space.

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