Usually means: Three times as much; threesome.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word triple:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. triple: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. triple: Merriam-Webster
  3. triple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. triple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. triple: Collins English Dictionary
  6. triple: Vocabulary.com
  7. Triple, triple: Wordnik
  8. triple: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. triple: Wiktionary
  10. triple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. triple: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. triple: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. triple: Dictionary.com
  14. triple (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. triple: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Triple (TV series), Triple (baseball), Triple (baseball statistics), Triple (disambiguation), Triple (mathematics), Triple (novel), Triple: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Triple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. triple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. triple: Rhymezone
  20. triple, triple, triple (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. triple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Triple: American-Britih Dictionary
  23. triple: FreeDictionary.org
  24. triple: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. triple: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. triple: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Triple: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. triple: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. triple, triple: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. triple: The Folk File
  3. Triple: A Seattle Lexicon
  4. triple: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Triple: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Triple: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See tripled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Made up of three related elements, often matching
adjective:  Of three times the quantity; treble.
adjective:  Designed for three users.
adjective:  Folded in three; composed of three layers.
adjective:  Having three aspects.
adjective:  (music) Of time, three times as fast as very fast.
adjective:  (obsolete) One of three; third.
noun:  Three times or thrice the number, amount, size, etc..
noun:  (informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.
noun:  (US) A hamburger with three patties.
noun:  (baseball) A three-base hit.
noun:  (basketball) A three-point field goal.
noun:  (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
noun:  (mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
verb:  To multiply by three.
verb:  (baseball) To get a three-base hit.
verb:  To become three times as large.
verb:  To serve or operate as (something), in addition to two other functions.

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