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Definition of "triple-crown" []

  • Of a horse that has won the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness races (adjective)
  • Unofficial championship title for player who heads the league in batting average and home runs and runs batted in (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "triple-crown" in a sentence
  • "Bush/Cheney failed to balance a single annual budget with control of the ultimate hat-trick/triple-crown/power play of government - control of all tricameral branches, therefore theteabag movement shows it is much less about fiscal responsibility than finding fault exclusively with democrats."
  • "Dumb, socially conservative and no sense of humor: the lucrative triple-crown of American right-wingers."
  • "He could give Scotty McClellan a run for his money in the triple-crown double-talk derby."
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