throuple
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English
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈθɹʌ.pəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌpəl
- Hyphenation: throup‧le
Noun
[edit]throuple (plural throuples)
- (neologism) Three individuals engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- 2021 January 14, Tamar Lapin, “Ashli Babbitt, Air Force vet killed at Capitol, was in a ‘throuple’”, in New York Post[1], retrieved 2021-07-22:
- The Air Force veteran fatally shot by police during last week’s US Capitol riot had been in a “throuple” with her husband and their live-in girlfriend, according to reports.
- 2023 April 21, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Our Throuple Fell Apart. What Are the Rules of the Breakup?”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- Nearly a year ago, I began dating two friends — I’ll call them Rachel and Dave — who were already themselves in a relationship. We all had no experience with polyamory. The throuple ended fairly quickly, with no one being at fault; the other two continued to date but broke up not too long afterward.
- 2024 February 8, Gina Cherelus, “You’re ‘Solo Poly’? So … You’re Single?”, in The New York Times[3]:
- But among all the throuples, polycules and nesting partners, there exists another category of polyamory that still throws many for a loop: solo polyamory, or having concurrent intimate relationships while maintaining independence.
- 2024 May 17, Thomas Reyes, “The Mighty Pucks Adventure” (0:35 from the start), in The Great North[4], season 4, episode 6, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):
- “Honeybee, if you stare at that dividend check any harder, we're gonna officially be a throuple.” [chuckles] “I'm in.”