triple-decker

Noun

Meaning

Something with three levels or storeys.
A bus with three storeys.

A three-storey apartment building.

A sandwich consisting of three levels of filling between four pieces of bread.

(journalism) A headline that is three lines long.

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The three-decker underwent a rebranding in the Kevin White-Ray Flynn era of 40 years ago, a few decades after “triple-decker” started to be applied to the houses to make them seem more palatable to new middle class buyers. Source: Internet

The Standard reports that Kensington & Chelsea council has rejected plans to build a triple-decker basement as building it would have meant breaking roots of trees. Source: Internet

Since I moved back to Massachusetts, I have lived exclusively in apartments in the older double- and triple-decker houses that provide the cheapest apartments in this overpriced housing market. Source: Internet

This meant that to read a whole book, you needed to pay three subscriptions, which is why the libraries liked the triple-decker format, and why they pressured publishers into continuing with it. Source: Internet

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