double dutch

1. 1.

   an incomprehensible talk

   Broadergibberish

   colloquialism · United Kingdom

2. 2.

   the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners

   Broaderjump rope

Questions about double dutch

What does double dutch mean?

double dutch means "an incomprehensible talk". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is double dutch a common word?

double dutch is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.