| 单词 |
triple-header |
| 释义 |
triple-ˈheader U.S.
Also tripleheader.
[f. triple a., after double-header.]
1. In baseball, etc., a sporting event at which three consecutive matches are staged. Also transf. and fig.
1961in Webster. 1970New Yorker 3 Oct. 34/2 Anybody who can't straighten out a plain old two-league, six-division distribution of twenty-six teams, each of which plays games both inside and outside its own division..isn't in shape for a single Sunday TV triple-header. 1979Honolulu Advertiser 8 Jan. c–2/3 Sheridan Midas Mufflers..annihilated Manoa 15-5 in the opener of a Honolulu AJA Senior Baseball tripleheader yesterday.
2. A situation, occurrence, etc., having three aspects or involving three participants.
1976New Yorker 29 Mar. 16/1 In his first attempt at a tripleheader (writer-director-star) he gets bogged down in an overelaborate production. 1977Ibid. 4 July 23/1 The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, which this year has been throwing new exhibitions at us almost faster than we can catch them, has most recently unveiled a triple-header. 1977Washington Post 13 Jan. c 1/3 Sens. Donald Riegle (D-Mich.), Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) and Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) made it a triple-header with their divorce announcements—getting it done before the new congressional session began and, of course, a few months after election time. |
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