trifecta
English edit
Etymology edit
From tri- + (per)fecta.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trifecta (plural trifectas)
- (US, Australia, New Zealand) A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.
- 2006, Vincent Conti, Thoroughbred Horse Racing Systems and Methodologies, page 9:
- The conservative player will play the exacta box bet and the occasional trifecta box wager.
- 2010, Leonard A. Asimow, Mark M. Maxwell, Probability and Statistics with Applications: A Problem Solving Text, page 10:
- In a trifecta, you must wager on three horses: the one that finishes first (win), the one that finishes second (place), and the one that finishes third (show) in order.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand) The attainment of three important achievements, qualities, etc.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A set of three related things, often things that cause problems.
- 2007, Michael Morrison, Head First JavaScript, page 525:
- Along with runtime errors, two other errors we saw earlier round out the JavaScript bug trifecta: syntax errors, logic errors, and runtime errors.
- 2011, Beatriz Scaglia, The Trifecta of Evil and the Crisis of Faith: Devil, Satan, and Lucifer[1]:
- 2011, Markus Horner, Consistently Persistent: Living with the Tourette Trifecta[2]:
- 2013 November 27, Emily Jane O'Dell, “Deep cover [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 47]”, in The New York Times[3]:
- I might never have learned my name or met my birth family if I hadn't ended up in the hospital in Rhode Island in 2007, after traveling to a trifecta of malaria hotspots: Mali, Egypt and Colombia.
- (US politics) The complete legislative and executive control of state or federal government by one party: governorship, the upper house, and the lower house of state or federal legislatures. The party that holds all three positions of power is said to have a trifecta.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
A bet on the first three places of a race in the order
Control by one party of the federal government
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See also edit
Spanish edit
Noun edit
trifecta f (plural trifectas)
Further reading edit
- “trifecta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014