triple-decker

Stacked club sandwich

A triple-decker is something with three layers or levels.

The term most commonly describes a sandwich with three slices of bread and two layers of filling: a club sandwich is a classic triple-decker.

It also applies to three-story residential buildings, especially the wooden multi-family houses common in New England cities.

Less frequently, triple-decker describes buses, beds, or other stacked structures.

building

brownstone

Sandstone-faced urban dwelling

apartment · stoop · facade · dormer · clapboard · walk-up · colonial · balcony · gabled · mansard

layered

stacked

Arranged in a heap

bus · interleaved · stratified · composite · alternating · graduated · arranged

sandwich

club

Organization with membership

  • BLTAbbreviated sandwich name
  • turkeyWattled North American fowl
  • baconCured smoked pork

ham · cheese · lettuce · tomato · mayonnaise · toast · deli · pastrami · rye · sourdough

Categories
Opposites
number of layers/levels

triple-deckersingle-decker

Bus with one level

single-story · double-decker · flat · ground-level · ranch-style

structural complexity

triple-deckerbasic

Fundamental in nature

unadorned · plain · minimalist · open-faced sandwich

Family

deck, triple, decks, decked, triplets, triplet, tripled, tripling, decking

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G