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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A play of children in which something, as a pebble or a coin, is shaken between the hands of one, while another guesses which hand it is retained in.
  • noun Hence A bribe paid secretly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Alternative form of handy dandy.
  • noun obsolete A children's game in which one child guesses in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong.

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