"double off" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: doubles off [present, singular, third-person], doubling off [participle, present], doubled off [participle, past], doubled off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} double off (third-person singular simple present doubles off, present participle doubling off, simple past and past participle doubled off)
  1. (baseball, transitive) After a fly ball is caught, to tag the base (a runner) was on at the time of the pitch, thereby causing them to be out for failure to tag up. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Baseball

Inflected forms

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