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A game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
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tiddlywinks
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tiddledywinks \Tid"dle*dy*winks`\, n. A game in which the object is to snap small disks of plastic, bone, ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; -- called also tiddlywinks . [U. S.]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tiddlywinks is an indoor game played on a flat felt mat with sets of small discs called "winks", a pot, which is the target, and a collection of squidgers, which are also discs. Players use a "squidger" (nowadays made of plastic) to shoot a wink into flight ...
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n. a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
children's tile-flipping game, 1857, probably an arbitrary formation from baby talk, but perhaps from slang tiddly-wink "unlicensed drink shop" (1844), from slang tiddly "a drink, drunk."