threefer
Something sold at a discount of three for the price of one.
Noun
- Something sold at a discount of three for the price of one.
- Thus, it was interesting to see that when the ISO 55001 Asset Management Standard was released last year, it also looks for an asset-management program to deliver its own twofers and threefers. - 2015 February 18, Ken...
- Something that has three functions or elements.
- We were so sure, some among us, anyway, that we would have two locals fighting for the big prize in November: the Republican former mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and the Democratic junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton....
- “It’s a threefer, not a twofer,” she said, holding a clutch-within-a-clutch that costs $109.90 and can be worn three ways. - 2012 November 29, Eric Wilson, “Shopping at the Plaza”, in The New York Times:
- "I'm so busy talking to him and Jennifer Aniston about doing a threefer, if you will," Barrymore told "Entertainment Tonight." "I really want to make it happen. Timing is everything." - 2024 May 26, Gabriele Regalbuto ,...
Origin
Shortened form of three-for-one or three-in-one, modeled after twofer.