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TRIPLE-CROWN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unofficial championship title for player who heads the league in batting average and home runs and runs batted in
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successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of a horse that has won the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness races
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Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
Domain category:
horse racing (the sport of racing horses)