triple-headern.

Forms: Also tripleheader.

Etymology: < triple adj., after double-header n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: triple-ˈheader.

U.S.

1. In baseball, etc., a sporting event at which three consecutive matches are staged. Also transferred and figurative.

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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of

all comersc1450

after-gamea1500

fore-game1594

revenge1616

plate1639

set-to1743

return match1753

bye1754

scrub-race1791

anybody's game (also race, match)1826

return1834

barney1843

bonspiel1858

handicap1861

pennant1865

home-and-home1868

benefit match1871

run-off1873

international1877

American tournament1878

Grand Prix1879

single1884

friendly1885

all-comers1889

pair1890

championship1893

round robin1894

replay1895

Olympiad1896

junior varsity1902

lightning tournament1903

rematch1903

road trip1903

pickup1905

freestyle1906

marathon1908

test1908

Derby1909

scrimmage1910

eliminator1911

twosome1911

triala1914

quadrangular1916

slug-fest1916

varsity match1921

needle contest1922

curtain jerker1923

needle match1923

open1926

needle fight1927

knock-out1928

shirt1930

masters1933

pro-amateur1934

tune-up1934

World Cup1934

pro-am1937

state1941

sizzler1942

runathon1943

mismatch1954

run-out1955

match-up1959

squeaker1961

triple-header1961

Super Bowl1967

invitational1968

needle game1970

major1976

slobberknocker1986

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 34/2 Anybody who can't straighten out a plain old two-league, six-division distribution of twenty-six teams, each of which plays games both inside and outside its own division..isn't in shape for a single Sunday TV triple-header.

1979 Honolulu Advertiser 8 Jan. c–2/3 Sheridan Midas Mufflers..annihilated Manoa 15-5 in the opener of a Honolulu AJA Senior Baseball tripleheader yesterday.

2. A situation, occurrence, etc., having three aspects or involving three participants.

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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence having three aspects or participants

triple-header1976

1976 New Yorker 29 Mar. 16/1 In his first attempt at a tripleheader (writer-director-star) he gets bogged down in an overelaborate production.

1977 New Yorker 4 July 23/1 The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, which this year has been throwing new exhibitions at us almost faster than we can catch them, has most recently unveiled a triple-header.

1977 Washington Post 13 Jan. c 1/3 Sens. Donald Riegle (D-Mich.), Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) and Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) made it a triple-header with their divorce announcements—getting it done before the new congressional session began and, of course, a few months after election time.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	triple-header
释义	triple-headern. Forms: Also tripleheader. Etymology: < triple adj., after double-header n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: triple-ˈheader. U.S. 1. In baseball, etc., a sporting event at which three consecutive matches are staged. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of all comersc1450 after-gamea1500 fore-game1594 revenge1616 plate1639 set-to1743 return match1753 bye1754 scrub-race1791 anybody's game (also race, match)1826 return1834 barney1843 bonspiel1858 handicap1861 pennant1865 home-and-home1868 benefit match1871 run-off1873 international1877 American tournament1878 Grand Prix1879 single1884 friendly1885 all-comers1889 pair1890 championship1893 round robin1894 replay1895 Olympiad1896 junior varsity1902 lightning tournament1903 rematch1903 road trip1903 pickup1905 freestyle1906 marathon1908 test1908 Derby1909 scrimmage1910 eliminator1911 twosome1911 triala1914 quadrangular1916 slug-fest1916 varsity match1921 needle contest1922 curtain jerker1923 needle match1923 open1926 needle fight1927 knock-out1928 shirt1930 masters1933 pro-amateur1934 tune-up1934 World Cup1934 pro-am1937 state1941 sizzler1942 runathon1943 mismatch1954 run-out1955 match-up1959 squeaker1961 triple-header1961 Super Bowl1967 invitational1968 needle game1970 major1976 slobberknocker1986 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 34/2 Anybody who can't straighten out a plain old two-league, six-division distribution of twenty-six teams, each of which plays games both inside and outside its own division..isn't in shape for a single Sunday TV triple-header. 1979 Honolulu Advertiser 8 Jan. c–2/3 Sheridan Midas Mufflers..annihilated Manoa 15-5 in the opener of a Honolulu AJA Senior Baseball tripleheader yesterday. 2. A situation, occurrence, etc., having three aspects or involving three participants. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence having three aspects or participants triple-header1976 1976 New Yorker 29 Mar. 16/1 In his first attempt at a tripleheader (writer-director-star) he gets bogged down in an overelaborate production. 1977 New Yorker 4 July 23/1 The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, which this year has been throwing new exhibitions at us almost faster than we can catch them, has most recently unveiled a triple-header. 1977 Washington Post 13 Jan. c 1/3 Sens. Donald Riegle (D-Mich.), Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) and Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) made it a triple-header with their divorce announcements—getting it done before the new congressional session began and, of course, a few months after election time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1961
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