triple sec

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   type of curacao having higher alcoholic content

   Broaderorange liqueur

Questions about triple sec

What does triple sec mean?

triple sec means "type of curacao having higher alcoholic content".

Is triple sec a common word?

triple sec 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.