tipcat
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
tipcat (countable and uncountable, plural tipcats)
- (uncountable) An old game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible.
- 1838, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome:
- In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand.
- (countable) The wooden piece used in this game.
- Synonym: cat
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Translations[edit]
game in which a wooden piece is struck with a stick
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wooden piece used in tipcat
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References[edit]
- “tipcat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.