double tongue

1. 1.

   play fast notes on a wind instrument

   Synonymstriple-tongue

   Broadertongue

   music

Questions about double tongue

What does double tongue mean?

double tongue means "play fast notes on a wind instrument".

What is another word for double tongue?

Close synonyms include triple-tongue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is double tongue a common word?

double tongue 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.