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three-sheets

three-sheets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of three-sheet.

Meaning of three-sheet

Verb

three-sheet (third-person singular simple present three-sheets, present participle three-sheeting, simple past and past participle three-sheeted)

  1. To exaggerate, hype up, or show off.
    • Now I don't think a man ought to be a spendthrift in order to be a good fellow, but a ball player getting four thousand a year shouldn't three-sheet himself every time he lets go of a quarter.1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post

Questions about three-sheets

What is three-sheets the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Three-sheets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of three-sheet.

Words near three-sheets in the dictionary

  1. three-second rule
  2. three-second rules
  3. three-sheet
  4. three-sheeted
  5. three-sheeting
  6. three-sheets
  7. three-shot
  8. three-shots
  9. three-sixties
  10. three-sixty
  11. three-space

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Adapted from Wiktionary: three-sheets (page history and authors); three-sheet (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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