double eagle

1. 1.

   (golf) a score of three strokes under par on a hole

   Broaderscore

   golf

2. 2.

   a former gold coin in the United States worth 20 dollars

   Broadercoin

Questions about double eagle

What does double eagle mean?

double eagle means "(golf) a score of three strokes under par on a hole". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is double eagle a common word?

double eagle 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.