quadruple bluff

plural quadruple bluffs

1. The next bluff in sequence after a double bluff and a triple bluff

   everything I was told as if it was at least a double-bluff and more likely a triple- or quadruple-bluff

   2008, 4 November, J Beresford, TV Scoop review

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   The Reason it is not interpretable may be that while we can appreciate the difference between sincerity and a bluff, and even between a bluff and a double bluff, our minds aren’t yet rigged up to appreciate the difference between, say, a triple bluff and a quadruple bluff.

   1998, J Haiman, Talk is Cheap, Oxford university press, →ISBN

   I have been given the topic of lust and immediately I wonder what it is that you are expecting, and as I wonder I try and think should I go for bluff, double bluff, triple bluff or quadruple bluff.

   2008, 28 February, Rt Revd Tim Thornton, Bishop of Sherborne, Lent lecture given to Salisbury Cathedral

   Clearly, Britain's only hope is that the whole story is part of an elaborate, black-ops quadruple bluff designed to lull Johnny Foreigner into a false sense of security over the apparently shambolic nature of our national defence system.

   2008 September 23, L Mangan, “The spy who came unstuck on national TV”, in The Guardian

present singular third person quadruple bluffs · participle present quadruple bluffing · participle past quadruple bluffed · past quadruple bluffed

1. To perform a quadruple bluff