triple double

See also: triple-double

English

Etymology

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Noun

triple double (plural triple doubles)

1. (basketball) The achievement of a two-digit number of any three of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game.
   • 2016 November 28, Mike Vorkunov, “Despite Flash of Rose’s Prime, Knicks Are Dazed by Westbrook and Thunder”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Yes, the Knicks had fallen prey to the habitual wizardry of the Thunder star Russell Westbrook, who had 27 points, 18 rebounds and 14 assists, his third straight triple-double and his eighth in 19 games this season.

Descendants

• → Norwegian Bokmål: trippel-dobbel

Translations

Translations

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trippel-dobbel m

See also

• double double
• quadruple double
• triple single