kerby
See also: Kerby
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bi
Noun
kerby (uncountable)
- (British English) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.
- 2011, Adrian McKinty, Dead I Well May Be (page 133)
- It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football. For a December night, the weather isn't bad.
- 2014, Simon Danczuk, Matt Baker, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith
- I'd play kerby in the street for hours looking up at contrails stretching across grey slate skies, wishing I was on a plane too, jetting away to somewhere else.
- 2014, Samantha Nash, All Muck and Mullets (page 43)
- The heat from the tarmac refracted the light and disturbed the vision of the children as they persisted in their game of kerby.
- 2011, Adrian McKinty, Dead I Well May Be (page 133)