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  • noun Alternative spelling of double-decker.

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Examples

  • Frequent use of public transportation, during a lifetime in a country where this is commonplace, has infused the artist's imagination with signs and signifiers, a moveable feast of doubledecker buses and coal-powered locomotives, which operates as something of a three-dimensional mapping system.

    Bill Bush: The Darker Side Of Human Folly: This Artweek.LA (Dec. 19-Jan. 1, 2012) Bill Bush 2011

  • Reminds me of The Langoliers, except on a doubledecker.

    Welcome to 1973 : Bev Vincent 2009

  • Frequent use of public transportation, during a lifetime in a country where this is commonplace, has infused the artist's imagination with signs and signifiers, a moveable feast of doubledecker buses and coal-powered locomotives, which operates as something of a three-dimensional mapping system.

    Bill Bush: The Darker Side Of Human Folly: This Artweek.LA (Dec. 19-Jan. 1, 2012) Bill Bush 2011

  • It was also interesting to hear that the doubledecker bus was sent to Dubai on the deck of a freighter and had the top nearly sheared off by a container being offloaded, which sent the production crew into a panic (and fits of uncontrollable giggles) until they figured out a way to write the damage into the script.

    CSI: Vulcan : Bev Vincent 2009

  • For over 30 years, a doubledecker freeway ran through the Hayes Valley neighborhood like a festering wound, but the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the structure sufficiently that it was torn down by Caltrans, and committed neighborhood activists managed to keep the monstrosity from being resurrected.

    Adaptations 2: Patricia's Green sfmike 2009

  • For over 30 years, a doubledecker freeway ran through the Hayes Valley neighborhood like a festering wound, but the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the structure sufficiently that it was torn down by Caltrans, and committed neighborhood activists managed to keep the monstrosity from being resurrected.

    Archive 2009-07-01 sfmike 2009

  • The plot of the show is that “The Double Deckers” are a group of seven young adults aged 9 to 16 living in London who hang out and play together in a converted doubledecker bus.

    The Double Deckers » Fanboy.com 2007

  • Hubby and I were in the 212 last week, and like other big cities around the world, NYC has doubledecker sightseeing buses:

    Coming to New York Miss Snark 2006

  • Right and left parallel clanging ringing a doubledecker and a singledeck moved from their railheads, swerved to the down line, glided parallel. —

    Ulysses 2003

  • Like an enormous lawn mower, the doubledecker ran over five - and six-foot-high fems, thick brush, small trees.

    The Season Of The Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977

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