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Date:Tue, 15 May 2001 21:03:16 -0700 (PDT)

third degree (thurd di-GREE) noun

Intensive questioning using rough treatment.

adjective

Pertaining to the third degree.

verb

To subject to such treatment.

"Halfway through the meal, I spotted his psycho ex walking toward us. She
immediately gave him the third degree, asking why he had let her go and
who this new girl was with him."
Cara Birnbaum and Jennifer Benjamin, Mortifying Meet-the-Parents Moments,
Cosmopolitan, Feb 2001.

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