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truel

truel noun: a duel fought between three people.

Noun

truel (plural truels)

  1. A duel fought between three people.
    • To effect a yet more complex and challenging truel, we can void the simplification that each player knows his order of firing ab initio.2014, Richard A. Epstein, The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 324
  2. (neologism) A conflict between three contending groups or ideas.

Forms of truel

pluraltruels

Origin of truel

Blend of tri- + duel.

Questions about truel

What does truel mean?
Truel means a duel fought between three people.
What part of speech is truel?
Truel is a noun.
What is the plural of truel?
The plural of truel is truels.

Words near truel in the dictionary

  1. truehoods
  2. trueing
  3. trueish
  4. trueism
  5. trueisms
  6. truel
  7. truelier
  8. trueliest
  9. truelove
  10. trueloves
  11. truels

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