threesome

From three +‎ -some.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹiːsəm/

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• Rhymes: (UK) -iːsəm

threesome (plural threesomes)

1. A group of three people or things.
2. An instance of sexual activity involving three people.
   • 2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 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, Tim Carvell; Josh Gondelman; Dan Gurewitch; Jeff Maurer; Ben Silva; Will Tracy; Jill Twiss; Seena Vali; Julie Weiner, “Charter Schools”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 22, HBO, Warner Bros. Television:

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

• (group of three people): triad, trine, trinity, trio, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio
• (sexual activity): ménage à trois, threeway, troilism

• twosome, foursome, fivesome, etc.
• moresome

• motherese