marbles
See also: Marbles
English
Noun
- Any of several children's games played with small glass balls.
- Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses.
- (figurative, usually in a limited number of expressions) Sanity.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sanity
- Grandpa's lost his marbles, but at least he still recognizes us.
- Granny's still got all her marbles.
- His lack of marbles is becoming ever more apparent.
- 2012, J. T. Petty, Bloody Chester, First Second, →ISBN, p. 63:
- —Her daddy's crazy. [...] Think she's looking for something?
—Treasure, I expect. That or maybe her daddy's marbles.
- —Her daddy's crazy. [...] Think she's looking for something?
- (motor racing) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
- 2014, Amen Zwa, Going Nowhere Fast In Assetto Corsa (2015-05-01), →ISBN, page 395:
- Some corners are littered with marbles, off the racing line.
Derived terms
Translations
game
Noun
marbles
Verb
marbles
- third-person singular simple present indicative of marble
Further reading
- marble (toy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia