Word (phrase?) of the year? - "double down"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/18/2012 02:56 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>No, that's "splitting". Doubling down means you double the initial bet
>and receive one and only one additional card.

I should go to Puerto Rico more frequently.  Than once.  Centuries ago.

Joel


>As OED says.
>
>Jesse Sheidlower
>OED
>
>On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 02:54:35PM -0400, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > As usual, I'm behind the ball.  But I am wondering about the
> > blackjack explanation.  My unquestionably uncertain recollection is
> > that one can double down after two cards only when they are
> > identical, and that doing so allows any number of additional cards to
> > be dealt to each pile.  Having played blackjack for money only once,
> > I am probably wrong.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 9/18/2012 02:30 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> > >On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > >>
> > >> As Mitt Romney is said to have done in his hastily-arranged press
> > >> conference in California yesterday evening.  And at other times, and
> > >> as others have been accused of doing.
> > >
> > >See my latest Word Routes column for more:
> > >
> > >http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/why-is-everyone-doub
> ling-down/
> > >
> > >--bgz
> > >
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