triple down

verb

To significantly increase (a risk, investment, or other commitment) to a maximum; to respond to a challenge by reinforcing or extending one's position to a maximum.

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Meanings

verbtriple down (third-person singular simple present triples down, present participle tripling down, simple past and past participle tripled down)

present singular third person triples down · participle present tripling down · participle past tripled down · past tripled down

  1. figurativelyintransitiveTo significantly increase (a risk, investment, or other commitment) to a maximum; to respond to a challenge by reinforcing or extending one's position to a maximum.

    The rightsholders to the Spider-Man characters made a (financially) successful solo movie about the cheesy villain Venom—and then tripled down for an entire trilogy about the toothy, slather-tongued gunk with the outsized malevolent eyes who fuses with human reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy).

    2024 October 23, Jesse Hassenger, “Tom Hardy takes one more hit-and-miss spin with a symbiote in Venom: The Last Dance”, in AV Club

Origin

An augmentation of double down.

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APA

triple down. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/triple%20down

MLA

“triple down.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/triple%20down. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “triple down,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/triple%20down.

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