Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An entertainment in which the chief amusement is a game in which the players attempt to pin, blindfolded, a paper tail, in the right place, upon the picture of a tailless donkey.

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Examples

  • If Doc Millikin had your case, he made the terrors of death seem like an invitation to a donkey-party.

    Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

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