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  • verb To deal the top and bottom cards from a deck to a confederate in a card game as if they were one card.

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Examples

  • If you've been following the exploits of Lawrence Salander, the disgraced New York dealer who exploited the trust of longtime clients to double-deal them out of millions, wait til you get a load of Kurt Lidtke.

    ARTINFO: Seattle Art Dealer Imprisoned After Plotting To Steal From Collectors' Homes ARTINFO 2011

  • If you've been following the exploits of Lawrence Salander, the disgraced New York dealer who exploited the trust of longtime clients to double-deal them out...

    ARTINFO: Seattle Art Dealer Imprisoned After Plotting To Steal From Collectors' Homes ARTINFO 2011

  • If you ve been following the exploits of Lawrence Salander, the disgraced New York dealer who exploited the trust of longtime clients to double-deal them out...

    ARTINFO: Seattle Art Dealer Imprisoned After Plotting To Steal From Collectors' Homes ARTINFO 2011

  • If you've been following the exploits of Lawrence Salander, the disgraced New York dealer who exploited the trust of longtime clients to double-deal them out of millions, wait til you get a load of Kurt Lidtke.

    ARTINFO: Seattle Art Dealer Imprisoned After Plotting To Steal From Collectors' Homes ARTINFO 2011

  • Knowing my opinion of Bismarck, you may wonder that I don't suspect him of some gigantic Machiavellian double-deal whereby he'd invented the tale of a Holnup plot (to hoax simpletons like me and Kralta) so that Starnberg could murder Franz-Josef with Bismarck's blessing, and start another war - he'd done it before, God knows, twice at least, and wouldn't have scrupled to do it again if it had suited his book.

    Watershed 2010

  • In 1980, during the crisis over Iran's seizure of 52 American hostages, Khamenei appears to have favored a fairly straightforward resolution with then-President Jimmy Carter, while the faction including Mousavi and his current allies "" ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former House Speaker Mehdi Karoubi "" was willing to double-deal Carter to secure military supplies through Israel.

    Printing: Obama's Iran Peace Talk Dilemma 2009

  • They already have, with the Southwest Museum's collection worth hundreds of millions being given over to them in a related string of City payouts without accountability since the 1987 Ferraro double-deal.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • In 1980, during the crisis over Iran's seizure of 52 American hostages, Khamenei appears to have favored a fairly straightforward resolution with then-President Jimmy Carter, while the faction including Mousavi and his current allies "" ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former House Speaker Mehdi Karoubi "" was willing to double-deal Carter to secure military supplies through Israel.

    Obama's Iran Peace Talk Dilemma 2009

  • How do we distinguish the real deal and the double-deal?

    Bob Franken: The Broken Belief System 2009

  • Johnson knew how to double-deal, how to work both sides of the aisle.

    David Matthews: Obama is full of it. Hope, I mean. 2008

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