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the rare jackpot where one pregnancy returns three small overlords instead of a reasonable one
means One of three children born from a single pregnancy, or more loosely any group of three matched things.
from Built from 'triple' plus the diminutive suffix '-et' (the same little ending that makes a 'booklet' a small book). 'Triple' itself reaches back through Old French to Latin 'triplus,' meaning 'threefold' — from 'tri-' (three) and a root tied to 'fold' or 'plait.' So a triplet is literally a 'small threefold thing,' a tidy three bundled together.
- odds
- naturally about 1 in 8,000 births
- music
- three notes squeezed into two beats
- identical
- all three from a single split egg
- physics
- three quarks build every proton and neutron
- poetry
- three rhyming lines stacked into a stanza