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three-names

three-names is the third-person singular simple present indicative of three-name.

Meaning of three-name

Verb

three-name (third-person singular simple present three-names, present participle three-naming, simple past and past participle three-named)

  1. (US, slang) The act of vocatively referring to someone (usually a child in one's family) using their full legal name (first, middle, and last) in order to emphasize a scolding.
    • Mom got super mad: she three-named my little brother as he made eye contact and dumped his noodles on the floor. "John Paul Smith, don't you dare dump those noodles on the floor!"

Questions about three-names

What is three-names the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Three-names is the third-person singular simple present indicative of three-name.

Words near three-names in the dictionary

  1. three-milk cakes
  2. three-minute warning
  3. three-minute warnings
  4. three-name
  5. three-named
  6. three-names
  7. three-naming
  8. three-of-a-kind
  9. three-on-the-tree
  10. three-on-the-trees
  11. three-parent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: three-names (page history and authors); three-name (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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