double over
verb1
Idiomatic To bend over deeply at the waist.
- Near-synonyms: double up, buckle over
- doubled over in pain
2 more examples
- A padded knee shattered my balls. I doubled over in the hallway, coughing up blood and yellow stuff I thought might be bile.2005, Mike Philbin, CHIMERAWORLD #1, page 113:
- “Do you have documents on you?” asked one of the guards. “Good, then we’ll know how to mark your grave if you fall behind the convoy.” The joke made his comrades double over with laughter.December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:
2
Usually, Of paper To fold in half.
- He doubled over the sheet of paper and wrote something on the back.