triple-tongue

tri·ple-tongue

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Definitions of triple-tongue word

verb without object triple-tongue to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument. 1
verb triple-tongue to play (very quick staccato passages of notes grouped in threes) on a wind instrument by a combination of single- and double-tonguing 0

before 1900

One of the 17% newest English words

First recorded in 1900-05

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