triangle n.
a three-way relationship, in any combination of sexes and sexualities.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Truckin ’round Brooklyn’ in N.Y. Age 4 Apr. 7/1: Ray Coleman is creating a triangle by paying loads of attention to Mae Johnson. | |
| On Broadway 19 May [synd. col.] At the Waldorf’s Starlight Roof: ‘She’s been in more triangles than a set of billiard balls.’. | |
| ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | To Love and Be Wise 79: [S]he would think up some small exclusive thing to do with Walter; something [...] tête-à-tête. It had been too often a triangle lately. | |
| Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words. |
In compounds
the Tyburn gallows, consisting of a three conjoined bars forming a triangle, capable of ‘turning off’ 21 victims at a time.
 | Memoirs of... Jonathan Wild x: The Survivors, whom [...] he sends to their Triangular Home. |
In phrases
(UK und.) enduring a judicial beating [the triangular framework to which the victim was secured].
| Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 7: On the triangle: Being flogged. |