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Noun
three times three (uncountable)
- (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."