three-decker
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[edit]Noun
[edit]three-decker (plural three-deckers)
- Anything with three layers or levels.
- 1972, Emily Coleman, Making friends with the opposite sex, page 198:
- I planned to splurge on a three-decker cone. All the flavors looked so good that I couldn't decide which three to have.
- Alternative form of triple-decker (“type of sandwich”)
- Alternative form of triple-decker (“type of bus”)
- Alternative form of triple-decker (“type of apartment building”)
- Alternative form of triple-decker (“type of headline”)
- (nautical, historical) A sailing warship that had guns on each of three decks.
- (historical) An old-fashioned pulpit.
Translations
[edit]warship
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