double dipper

1. 1.

   someone who draws two incomes from the government (usually by combining a salary and a pension)

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Questions about double dipper

What does double dipper mean?

double dipper means "someone who draws two incomes from the government (usually by combining a salary and a pension)".

Is double dipper a common word?

double dipper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.