troika
noun/ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/UK
Etymology
From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”).
- derived from тро́йка
Definitions
A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
- When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth.
- Travelling part of the way by rail and the remainder by troika, he reached Orenburg shortly before Christmas.
A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or…
A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts.
- The investigator suspected the poor dead bastards were just a vodka troika that had cheerily frozen to death.
- The bare troika of Boolean operators brought them into metaphorical being.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for troika. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA