triple play

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   the act of getting three players out on one play

   Broaderbaseball play

Questions about triple play

What does triple play mean?

triple play means "the act of getting three players out on one play".

Is triple play a common word?

triple play is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.