triple down

English

Etymology

An augmentation of double down.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, figurative) 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. [with on ‘something’]

   Coordinate term: double down

   • 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^[1]:

     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).