1988 Newsday (N.Y.) 30 June 156/4 He says the Lakers are matched only by the Celtics of the 1960s in terms of all-time basketball greatness, and already has added a new word, ‘threepeat’, to his vocabulary.

1994 Toronto Star 10 July c5/3 After the back-to-back win of the World Series for the Jays, fans had automatically assumed a three-peat.

2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 11 Feb. 64/1 As the mayor's second and final term draws to a close (term limits preclude a threepeat), the city is about to be inherited by someone of a very different temperament.

1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Disp. (Nexis) 8 Mar. 2 d The Lincoln High Tigers say they want to ‘three-peat’. ‘You know, kind of like repeat, except doing it for the third time,’ senior Sharif Ford said.

1991 Sports Illustr. 8 Apr. 80/2 If he wins, he will be the first man to three-peat Augusta—and the first in 35 years to three-peat any major—and that means outclassing Nicklaus and Palmer and even Hogan himself.

1991 San Francisco Chron. 15 Apr. c1/1 The Mountain View software firm ‘threepeats’ as best of companies with less than $200 million revenues.

1995 N.Y. Times 24 Jan. b9/2 Linebacker Ken Norton took a calculated risk when he left Dallas, a two-time defending Super Bowl champion that looked primed to three-peat, for the promise of championship glory with San Francisco.

2000 Ottawa Sun (Electronic ed.) 30 Oct. The Riders will be in tough to threepeat when they host the Broncos.