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double-declutch en · VERB
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(dated) A method of changing gear in a vehicle which doesn't have synchromesh. The clutch is depressed to disengage the current gear, released while in neutral, and depressed again to obtain the next gear.
The Talbot-Darracq, with its leather seats
And Biddy in beside me! I could show.
Double-declutching to perfection now.
1960 [1960], John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells, London: John Murray, page 89:
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