three times three

English

Noun

three times three (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Three cheers; a cry of "hip hip hooray" repeated three times.
   • 1808, David Hughson, London, page 233:

     The volunteers having finished their dinner, his majesty's health was given, in a bumper, by upwards of six thousand, all standing, uncovered, with three times three, and loud and reiterated acclamations of joy, accompanied by the music of all the bands.

   • 1815, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall:

     Through all our land we could not boast
     A knight more gay, more prompt than he,
     To rise and fill a bumper toast,
     And pass it round with three times three.

   • 1837, Dudley Ryder, Sir Cresswell, Conservative Triumph; or, the three glorious days!, page 17:

     I beg leave, gentlemen, to return you my most herty thanks for the manner in which you have drunk the toast; and I also beg leave to propose, with three times three, "The Lancashire Witches."