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Alice had to play it with flamingos as mallets
Answer for the clue "Alice had to play it with flamingos as mallets ", 7 letters:
croquet
Alternative clues for the word croquet
- Sport with wickets
- Game with wooden balls, mallets and hoops
- A game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops
- Empty Chaucer quote rubbished game played on grass
- Credit quote convoluted: it involves going through hoops
- Picnic pastime #2
- Wimbledon Cup sport
- It can have you going through hoops
- Game old queen confined in cellar
Word definitions for croquet in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1858, from Northern French dialect croquet "hockey stick," from Old North French "shepherd's crook," from Old French croc (12c.), from Old Norse krokr "hook" (see crook ). Game originated in Brittany, popularized in Ireland c.1830, England c.1850, where ...
Usage examples of croquet.
Alden speculated that Lily was obliged to wait for some late autumnal sunset to align itself exactly with the rusty croquet hoops atilt in the side yard before she could touch the thermostat.
If your ball hits another ball, you get a croquet stroke and a continuation stroke, but if your ball goes through two hoops in one stroke, you only get one stroke.
To drive out to Tollygunge of an afternoon, have tea and a game of croquet, look at the picture papers, and come quietly home again, is to me the height of bliss.
As he walked away I reflected that Ashton could not have got where he was by idling his time away playing tennis and croquet.
There were fistfights in the hydrangea, orgasms among the croquet wickets.
The tending servitors flitted above the field, Daeman thought, like so many levitating croquet balls.
Amherst pheasants to five shillings that she refuses to have me as a partner at the croquet tournament.
This deed shall hereby exclude the following commercial events: tennis tournaments, automobile races, soccer, skeet shooting, rodeos, croquet, lacrosse, monster-truck pulls, Wrestlemania or any Battle of the Network Superstars.
Wylie pictures them sunbathing in the nude, fucking in the moonlight among croquet wickets.
There was a badminton net strung up across the long lawn and the wire wickets of a croquet course laid out over the grass nearby.
The Chargé was a droll, well-to-do Bostonian who had spent a lifetime reading Proust and playing croquet.
He said a man liked to be engaged to a clinging Vine, but that after marriage a Vine got to be a darned nusance and took everything while giving nothing, being the sort to prefer chicken croquets to steak and so on, and wearing a boudoir cap in bed in the mornings.
As soon as the ship entered the first gate like some clumsy croquet ball passing through the first of several thousand wickets, the blade of the accelerator-scissors began snapping open with a differential angular velocity nearing—.
We entered an anteroom that was used to store an assortment of play equipment: badminton rackets, golf clubs, baseball bats, a rack lined with a full set of croquet mallets and balls, Styrofoam kickboards for the pool, and a line of fiberglass surfboards that looked as if they'd been propped against the wall for years.
Blinded by tears, he put a foot down on his kibble-colored croquet ball and crashed to the sward.