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Definition: Triple Crown |
Triple CrownNoun1. (horse racing) a title won by a horse that can win the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness. 2. (baseball) an unofficial title won by a batter who leads the league in hitting average and runs batted in and home runs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Canonicals | Noun: canonicals, vestments; robe, gown, Geneva gown frock, pallium, surplice, cassock, dalmatic, scapulary, cope, mozetta, scarf, tunicle, chasuble, alb, alba, stole; fanon, fannel; tonsure, cowl, hood; calote, calotte; bands; capouch, amice; vagas, vakas, vakass; apron, lawn sleeves, pontificals, pall; miter, tiara, triple crown; shovel hat, cardinal's hat; biretta; crosier; pastoral staff, thurifer; costume. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Triple Crown is a term used to describe the winner of three specific and important events in a number of different venues. Unmodified with regard to horse racing, it refers to the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
It also refers to the following:
The Triple Crown is also a sporting competition in which the rugby teams of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland play against each other from January to March in a series of rugby internationals.1 The unbeaten team, if there is one, wins the Triple Crown. (Note that the Triple Crown will not necessarily be won by anyone, as it requires victories against all the other home countries.) It is played as part of a larger competition known as the Six Nations, which also involves France and Italy. A team that beats all other teams is said to have won the Grand Slam. The loser, i.e., the team with no wins or the lowest number of points, is said to have won the Wooden Spoon.
1 The name may well be due to the existence in the United Kingdom until 1922 of three 'crowns', the former kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. Wales was not a crown, hence the use of triple crown as a title when four nations were actually involved in the competition. Though Ireland as the Irish Free State left the United Kingdom in 1922, and is now the Republic of Ireland, the term is still used. (From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Footnote
Triple crown (baseball)
Major League Baseball batting winners:
| Batter | Team | Year | HR | RBI | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Hines | PRO-N | 1878 | 4 | 50 | .358 |
| Hugh Duffy | BOS-N | 1894 | 18 | 145 | .438 |
| Nap Lajoie | PHI-A | 1901 | 14 | 125 | .422 |
| Ty Cobb | DET | 1909 | 9 | 115 | .377 |
| Heinie Zimmerman | CHI-N | 1912 | 14 | 103 | .372 |
| Rogers Hornsby | STL-N | 1922 | 42 | 152 | .401 |
| Rogers Hornsby | STL-N | 1925 | 39 | 143 | .403 |
| Chuck Klein | PHI-N | 1933 | 28 | 120 | .368 |
| Jimmie Foxx | PHI-A | 1933 | 48 | 163 | .356 |
| Lou Gehrig | NY-A | 1934 | 49 | 165 | .363 |
| Joe Medwick | STL-N | 1937 | 31 | 154 | .374 |
| Ted Williams | BOS | 1942 | 36 | 137 | .356 |
| Ted Williams | BOS | 1947 | 32 | 114 | .343 |
| Mickey Mantle | NY-A | 1956 | 52 | 130 | .353 |
| Frank Robinson | BAL | 1966 | 49 | 122 | .316 |
| Carl Yastrzemski | BOS | 1967 | 44 | 121 | .326 |
Major League Baseball pitching winners:
| Pitcher | Team | Year | ERA | Wins | SOs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tommy Bond | Bos-N | 1877 | 2.11 | 40 | 170 |
| Old Hoss Radbourn | Prov | 1884 | 1.38 | 60 | 441 |
| Tim Keefe | NY-N | 1888 | 1.74 | 35 | 333 |
| John Clarkson | Bos-N | 1889 | 2.73 | 49 | 284 |
| Amos Rusie | NY-N | 1894 | 2.78 | 36 | 195 |
| Cy Young | Bos-A | 1901 | 1.62 | 33 | 158 |
| Rube Waddell | Phi-A | 1905 | 1.48 | 26 | 287 |
| Christy Mathewson | NY-N | 1905 | 1.27 | 31 | 206 |
| Christy Mathewson | NY-N | 1908 | 1.43 | 37 | 259 |
| Walter Johnson | Wash | 1913 | 1.09 | 36 | 243 |
| Grover Alexander | Phi-A | 1915 | 1.22 | 31 | 241 |
| Grover Alexander | Phi-A | 1916 | 1.55 | 33 | 167 |
| Grover Alexander | Phi-A | 1917 | 1.86 | 30 | 201 |
| Walter Johnson | Wash | 1918 | 1.27 | 23 | 162 |
| Hippo Vaughn | Chi-N | 1918 | 1.74 | 22 | 148 |
| Grover Alexander | Chi-N | 1920 | 1.91 | 27 | 173 |
| Walter Johnson | Wash | 1924 | 2.72 | 23 | 158 |
| Dazzy Vance | Bklyn | 1924 | 2.16 | 28 | 262 |
| Lefty Grove | Phi-A | 1930 | 2.54 | 28 | 209 |
| Lefty Grove | Phi-A | 1931 | 2.06 | 31 | 175 |
| Lefty Gomez | NY-A | 1934 | 2.33 | 26 | 158 |
| Lefty Gomez | NY-A | 1937 | 2.33 | 21 | 194 |
| Bucky Walters | Cin | 1939 | 2.29 | 27 | 137 |
| Hal Newhouser | Det | 1945 | 1.81 | 25 | 212 |
| Sandy Koufax | LA-N | 1963 | 1.88 | 25 | 306 |
| Sandy Koufax | LA-N | 1965 | 2.04 | 26 | 382 |
| Sandy Koufax | LA-N | 1966 | 1.73 | 27 | 317 |
| Steve Carlton | Phi | 1972 | 1.97 | 27 | 310 |
| Dwight Gooden | NY-N | 1985 | 1.53 | 24 | 268 |
| Roger Clemens | Tor | 1997 | 2.05 | 21 | 292 |
| Roger Clemens | Tor | 1998 | 2.65 | 20 | 271 |
| Pedro Martinez | Bos | 1999 | 2.07 | 23 | 313 |
| Randy Johnson | Ari | 2002 | 2.32 | 24 | 334 |
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Triple Crown."
Crosswords: Triple Crown |
| English words defined with "triple crown": triple-crown season, Triple-crowned. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
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triple crown winner | 691 | baseball triple crown winner | 24 |
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horse triple crown | 37 | triple crown of thoroughbred racing | 7 |
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horse racing triple crown winner | 32 | horse racings triple crown | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "triple crown"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | tiara (tiara). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | トリパノソーマ症 (sleeping sickness, toluene, torque, torque converter, tribune, trilemma, trill, trim, trimmer, trimming, triple, triple jump, triple play, trivia, trivialism, trooper, truffle, trypanosoma, trypanosomiasis, Turkey, turquoise). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | トリプルクラウン . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ipletray owncray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: intercrop. | |
-3 letters: entropic, inceptor, interrow, leprotic, leptonic, petrolic, pilewort, plectron, portlier, replicon, terpinol, tricorne. | |
-4 letters: cointer, cornier, cowrite, crowner, crownet, entopic, lection, loriner, nepotic, noticer, peloric, pierrot, pinocle, pointer, poitrel, politer, porcine, pornier, porrect, potline, preriot, printer, proline, protein, prowler, recrown, reprint, retinol, topline, towline, tricorn, tropine, twirler. | |
-5 letters: cineol, citole, citron, client, cloner. | |
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