triple-header

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triple-header (plural triple-headers)

  1. (sports) Three games played one after another between the same teams.
  2. Three sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.
  3. Three sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
  4. (by extension) Three similar events of any kind performed on the same day.
    • 2009 February 8, John Harney, “‘You May Now Kiss the Bride...Next’”, in New York Times[1]:
      Rabbi Feller, who performs 80 to 100 each year, remembers a June 2007 tripleheader when she officiated at morning and early afternoon ceremonies on the East Side, followed by another at the Central Park Boathouse.