Usually means: Severe form of police interrogation.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. third degree: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. third degree, the third degree: Merriam-Webster
  3. third-degree, third-degree: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. third degree: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. third degree: Collins English Dictionary
  6. third degree: Vocabulary.com
  7. Third-degree, third-degree: Wordnik
  8. the third degree: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. third-degree, third degree: Wiktionary
  10. third degree: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. third degree: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. third-degree, third degree: Dictionary.com
  13. third degree: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. third-degree: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Third Degree, Third Degree (Flying Colors album), Third Degree, Third degree (interrogation), Third degree: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. third degree: Rhymezone
  17. third degree: FreeDictionary.org
  18. third degree: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. third-degree, third degree: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. third degree: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Third Degree, third-degree: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. third-degree, third degree: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. third-degree, third degree: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. third degree: A Word A Day
  2. third-degree, third degree, the third degree: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. third degree, third degree: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See third_degreeing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (third degree)

noun:  (informal) Intensive rough interrogation in order to extract information or a confession

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