double fault

1. 1.

   (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point

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Questions about double fault

What does double fault mean?

double fault means "(tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point".

Is double fault a common word?

double fault 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.