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- noun A variant spelling of
bocce .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court
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Examples
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The Pluto Files is informative, fun viewing, especially if you're the kind of person who cracks a smile watching two camps of opposing scientists build a scale model of the solar system using pediments, Hoppity-hops, bocci balls and bb's on the Harvard University football field.
NOVA's Pluto Files (With Neil deGrasse Tyson) Will Make You a Better American 2010
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The Pluto Files is informative, fun viewing, especially if you're the kind of person who cracks a smile watching two camps of opposing scientists build a scale model of the solar system using pediments, Hoppity-hops, bocci balls and bb's on the Harvard University football field.
Sharon Glassman: NOVA's Pluto Files (With Neil deGrasse Tyson) Will Make You a Better American 2010
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Good news is we mowed the lawn and the bocci game is underway for the season. on June 4, 2008 at 12:02 am | Reply artegami
Ten Things Tuesday – Blatant Advertising « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2008
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Life in other pens is more congenial, with pool tables, racquetball courts and bocci games for aging wiseguys.
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We managed to work our way through the plush, library-like main room with the indoor bocci and got a table in the alleyway outside.
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It'll should work better than the Mayor's bocci ball idea.
Archive 2006-02-19 2006
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We went over to Ami and John's and, in between games of bocci, we were able to watch our paella master in action:
Archive 2005-07-01 Kate 2005
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Weeds and litter strangled an old bocci ball court, a reminder that the Italian immigrants of the fifties and sixties and their first-generation American kids were long gone to Staten Island, Jersey, Long Island, and Florida.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Weeds and litter strangled an old bocci ball court, a reminder that the Italian immigrants of the fifties and sixties and their first-generation American kids were long gone to Staten Island, Jersey, Long Island, and Florida.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Weeds and litter strangled an old bocci ball court, a reminder that the Italian immigrants of the fifties and sixties and their first-generation American kids were long gone to Staten Island, Jersey, Long Island, and Florida.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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