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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