English is chock-full of spondees, arriving out of mere happenstance or as set phrases. Some pleasing examples:
- make work
- makeshift
- dry run
- slow roll
- smoke test
- trash heap
- breadcrumb
- crockpot
- clean cut
- time crunch
- stick shift
- drive train
- clean break
- off book
- dipshit
- freak show
- try hard
- bookworm
- blood bath
- dead drop
- dead end
- smash cut
- hell bent
- meltdown
- crosshatch
- mismatch
- mishmash
- crisscross
- grid lock
- pit stop