Definitions
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- noun A children's game, similar to
hopscotch , especially popular inNew York . - noun The
puck used in this game, usually made of a flattenedtin can .
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Examples
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And, as I remember, kids used a tin badge, also called a potsy, in the kind of game you describe.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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And, as I remember, kids used a tin badge, also called a potsy, in the kind of game you describe.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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And, as I remember, kids used a tin badge, also called a potsy, in the kind of game you describe.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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And, as I remember, kids used a tin badge, also called a potsy, in the kind of game you describe.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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- Hopscotch might be "potsy" in Manhattan or "sky blue" in Chicago.
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- Hopscotch might be "potsy" in Manhattan or "sky blue" in Chicago.
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- Hopscotch might be "potsy" in Manhattan or "sky blue" in Chicago.
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“I sat down for a while in a playground,” wrote Saul Bellow in his 1956 Seize the Day, “…to watch the kids play potsy and skip rope.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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As a little girl growing up in the Bronx up the street from the courthouse, my friends and I played both potsy and hopscotch.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In potsy, we tossed our keys stones rolled too much into the numbered square, then hopped around the grid and picked them up.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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