Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A game in which players try to snap small disks into a cup by pressing them on the edge with a larger disk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
tiddledywinks .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun games A game in which the objective is to shoot
winks into a cup or at a target by flicking them with a shooter (nowadays called asquidger ) from a surface. - noun A competitive partnership game in which the objective is to gain an advantage over opponents by
squopping opponentwinks and bysquidging friendlywinks into a pot.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Otherwise I suggest you go down the street and see if there is somebody you can play jacks or tiddlywinks with.
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"I would've rather stayed home and played tiddlywinks sometimes," he said.
A Hockey Team With a Turbocharger Tom Perrotta 2010
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Their objective all along has been to destroy his presidency, and the next two years are going to make the first two look like they were playing tiddlywinks.
Jacob Heilbrunn: The Plot Against Barack Obama Jacob Heilbrunn 2010
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Next week, maybe we can watch people play tiddlywinks to decide who gets to see a screening of The Love Guru.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! 2010
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"Don't forget tiddlywinks and Ping-Pong," he says.
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It had rained, and tiny frogs leaped across the dirt road like tiddlywinks.
Coping Stones Ann Beattie 2010
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He would take me, the wordikins and the tiddlywinks and hauntings and the memories of fornication and the pleasures of floorboards, and suck them out of the ghost until the ghost was a ghost of itself.
Magic X Nina Alvarez 2010
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Next week, maybe we can watch people play tiddlywinks to decide who gets to see a screening of The Love Guru.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored! 2010
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At the end, viewers are urged to go to a website, www. spotsvstripes.com, to join a team and compete in any real-life game they like – from tiddlywinks to crazy golf and keepy-uppy – and to build up national totals online for each side.
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After years of watching tiddlywinks, let's not forget what a good game of chess looks like.
Emanuel Backtracks From 'Trigger' Comments; Dem Says CoS Made "Hell Of A Mistake" 2010
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Other nations are before us
With their Sputniks and Explorers
What can confidence restore us?
Naught but tiddlywinks.
On the fields of Eton,
Former foes were beaten.
But today all patriots play
This sport which needs such grit and concentration.
Through this game of skill and power
England knows her finest hour,
And her stronghold, shield and tower
Must be tiddlywinks.
May 4, 2009