triple-tongue

[ trip-uh l-tuhng ]
/ ˈtrɪp əlˌtʌŋ /

verb (used without object), tri·ple-tongued, tri·ple-tongu·ing. Music.

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.
Compare double-tongue.

Origin of triple-tongue

First recorded in 1900–05

British Dictionary definitions for triple-tongue

triple-tongue

verb

music to play (very quick staccato passages of notes grouped in threes) on a wind instrument by a combination of single- and double-tonguing Compare single-tongue, double-tongue

Derived forms of triple-tongue

triple tonguing, noun