2. Noun. The age of three; three years old. ¹
3. Noun. (poker slang) A pair of threes. ¹
4. Noun. (basketball) Three point shots. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Threes
1. three [n] - See also: three
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threes
Literary usage of Threes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"Twilled threes, a. This is exactly the same method as i. a except that each ...
threes and ones. A variety is obtained by passing all the wefts running in ..."
2. Western Live-stock Management by Ermine Lawrence Potter, Carl N. Kennedy, George Roy Samson, Oran Milton Nelson (1917)
"GROWING THE TWOS AND threes The essentials in growing the twos and threes are
... Colts that are twos and threes will not need as much grain as the foal or ..."
3. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1871)
"Mr. Darwin gives a diagram, showing the primordial or archetypal arrangement of
threes within threes, out of which all the strange and marvellous forms of ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"—Lat. terni, pi., by threes. Allied to ter, thrice, and to tres, ... (from Lat.
terni), tern-ate, arranged in threes, a coined word. senary, and a ternary;' ..."
5. Tactics and Manual for Knights Templars: Sword and Bugle Signals, Rules for by H. B. Grant (1882)
"This will reverse the order of threes, but the following c»r»' secutive movements
... Rear threes left front into line. 3. MARCI ^' Those threes which have ..."
6. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"J. Bermudiana, the Bermudian cedar, grows twenty or thirty feet high, has small
acute leaves by threes below, the upper ones awl-shaped, acute, ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... blue and pink and white and saffron, turning aside to go to their own villages,
dispersing and growing small by twos or threes across the level plain. ..."
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