Usually means: Looking twice due to surprise.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word double take:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. double take: Merriam-Webster
  2. double take: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double take: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. double take: Collins English Dictionary
  5. double take: Vocabulary.com
  6. Double-Take, double-take: Wordnik
  7. double take: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. double-take, double take: Wiktionary
  9. double take: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. double take: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. double take: Dictionary.com
  12. Double Take (Petra album), Double Take (group), Double-take (comedy), Double take: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. double take: Rhymezone
  14. double take: FreeDictionary.org
  15. double take: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. double take: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. double take: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. double-take, double take: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See double_takes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (double take)

noun:  An abrupt movement, used, for example, as a comical reaction to a surprising sight, in which someone casually sees something, briefly stops looking at it, realizes what it is, and snaps attention back to it with an expression of surprise or disbelief.

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