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triple agents

triple agents is the plural of triple agent.

Meaning of triple agent

Noun

triple agent (plural triple agents)

  1. A spy who pretends to be a double agent for one side, while actually acting as a double agent for the other side.
    • There are also triple agents—people who do what the doubles have done, but change their minds and, under our control, pass phoney intelligence back to the Russians. Do you understand? It’s nothing but a complicated game, really.1980 [1962], Ian Fleming, chapter 11, in The Spy Who Loved Me, →ISBN, page 150

Questions about triple agents

What is triple agents the plural of?
Triple agents is the plural of triple agent.

Words near triple agents in the dictionary

  1. triple A
  2. triple A syndrome
  3. triple acrostic
  4. triple acrostics
  5. triple agent
  6. triple agents
  7. triple bar
  8. triple barrel
  9. triple barreled
  10. triple barreling
  11. triple barrelled

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