Double dip

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Double dip may refer to:

• Double dipping, the practice of simultaneously holding multiple elected positions
• Double Dip (confectionery), a confectionery produced by Swizzels Matlow
• A meteorological term referring to both an "early high" temperature and a "late low" temperature in the same day
• The practice of selling a media item to a consumer multiple times via a Special edition
• The practice of using both a tanning bed and a sunless tanning method to achieve a very dark tan
• Double-dip recession, a recession shape used by economists
• To put a food item (like a vegetable or tortilla chip) into a dip (food), take a bite and put the chip back in. Socially taboo (as mentioned in the Seinfeld episode "The Implant") as believed to add microbes from the person's mouth into the dip.
• A lifeline in the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in which a contestant takes two tries at a question. If the contestant's first answer is wrong, he or she must choose from the remaining three answers, but if the second answer is also wrong, the contestant's game is over
• A tax effective use of a structure that achieves a tax “advantage” in one jurisdiction that is doubled in another jurisdiction. Double-dip financing is an attractive tax-planning strategy in certain cases involving the use of conventional debt, depending on the effective tax rate on interest income in the home country, compared with the effective tax rate on profit in the host country.
• During the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, the term "double dipping" was used to refer to two Members of Parliament (generally a married couple) who live together, both claiming expenses on the rent/mortgage/expenses of the same home. It also applied where one MP claimed their original home on expenses, and the other claimed their London home on expenses.