triple-header

[ trip-uhl-hed-er ]

/ ˈtrɪp əlˈhɛd ər /

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noun Sports.

a set of three games, as of basketball, each game being played in the same arena on the same day and often between different pairs of teams.

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SHALL WE PLAY A "SHALL" VS. "SHOULD" CHALLENGE?

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Question 1 of 6

Which form is used to state an obligation or duty someone has?

Origin of triple-header

First recorded in 1945–50

Elderly women played Triple Double Diamond and Tiki Magic while they chain-smoked.
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The wine-producing countries of Spain, Italy, and France, suggest limits that are double and triple that of the U.S.
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“Every single witness is inadmissible, hearsay, triple-hearsay,” said assistant state attorney Penny Brill in court yesterday.
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He emphasized that employing people with IDD is a triple win: the employer, the employee, and the federal government all benefit.
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Last year they joined with the widows of the men from Popular Unity in calling for an investigation into the triple homicide.
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When rapidly deposited, as by artificial precipitation, triple phosphate often takes feathery, star- or leaf-like forms.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The sediment usually contains abundant amorphous phosphates and crystals of triple phosphate and ammonium urate.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
At the beginning of 1917 I was offered the chance of production in a triple bill if I cut it down into a two-act play.
First Plays|A. A. Milne
It has no balconies outside, but, instead of this, a triple wreath of leaves round each story.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
It was the man with the bluish cheek scar who had accosted him after the triple-killing in that office building.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various