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Definition of trice noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

trice

noun

/traɪs/

/traɪs/

Word Originlate Middle English trice ‘a tug’, figuratively ‘an instant’, from Middle Dutch trīsen ‘pull sharply’, related to trīse ‘pulley’.

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Idioms

in a trice

very quickly or suddenly synonym instant (1)
- He was gone in a trice.
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