salugi

English

Noun

salugi (uncountable)

1. a keep-away game in which children throw around an object with the aim of keeping it away from a particular child (often the owner of the object) or from another group of children; keepings off
   • 1995, August Kleinzahler, 'The Old Schoolyard in August'

     the taste of pencils and Louis Bocca's ear / torn off by the fence in a game of salugi.