three times three
noun1
Archaic Three cheers; a cry of "hip hip hooray" repeated three times.
- 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.1808, David Hughson, London, page 233:
- 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.1815, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall:
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- 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."1837, Dudley Ryder, Sir Cresswell, Conservative Triumph; or, the three glorious days!, page 17: