Short form for 'double,' commonly used in texting, gaming, or technical contexts to save space or time.
Modern abbreviation created by dropping vowels from 'double' to create a consonant-cluster shorthand; part of the broader 20th-21st century trend of text-messaging and internet communication creating new abbreviated lexicons.
Before texting, 'dbl' appeared in crossword puzzles and shorthand notation, but it exploded in frequency when SMS texting charged per character — abbreviations literally saved money, which shows how technology shapes language evolution in real time!
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