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tripleheader

tripleheader is the alternative form of triple-header.

Meaning of triple-header

Noun

triple-header (plural triple-headers)

  1. Three games played one after another between the same teams.
  2. Three sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.
  3. Three sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
  4. (broadly) Three similar events of any kind performed on the same day.
    • Rabbi Feller, who performs 80 to 100 each year, remembers a June 2007 tripleheader when she officiated at morning and early afternoon ceremonies on the East Side, followed by another at the Central Park Boathouse.2009 February 8, John Harney, “‘You May Now Kiss the Bride...Next’”, in New York Times

Forms of tripleheader

pluraltripleheaders

Questions about tripleheader

What is tripleheader the alternative form of?
Tripleheader is the alternative form of triple-header.

Words near tripleheader in the dictionary

  1. triplefins
  2. triplefold
  3. triplegia
  4. triplegias
  5. triplegic
  6. tripleheader
  7. tripleheaders
  8. tripleness
  9. tripler
  10. triplers
  11. triples

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