Double
Sub
Sub verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Usage example: the weekend anchor is subbing for the TV station's main anchor all this week
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- Crowley tends to toss around double entendres like they're going out of style, but whenever he faces off against Castiel, the "sub" just goes out of the subtext.
Source: Mind Game Ship -
In the arcade version of Double Dragon II, the head-swapped bosses from the previous game appear only as sub-bosses.
Source: Video Game / Double Dragon -
The Discotek sub of The Movie, on the other hand, is just filled with instances where the translator did not double check his translation or simply didn't care.
Source: Blind Idiot Translation / Anime
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