threesome

Etymology

From three +‎ -some.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹiːsəm/

Noun

threesome (plural threesomes)

1. A group of three people.
2. An instance of sexual activity involving three people.
   • 2013, Joanna Biggs, "Tell me everything", London Review of Books, vol. 35, no. 7:

     ‘Tell me everything,’ she said to Losse, and when she’d heard everything, got the colleague who kept suggesting a threesome discreetly demoted.

   • 2016 August 21, John Oliver, “Charter Schools”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 22, HBO:

     That’s a threesome joke about her fucking children! It was in the first season and they gave her another one!

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