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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A game in which players try to snap small disks into a cup by pressing them on the edge with a larger disk.

Wiktionary

  1. n. games A game in which the objective is to shoot winks into a cup or at a target by flicking them with a shooter (nowadays called a squidger) from a surface.
  2. n. A competitive partnership game in which the objective is to gain an advantage over opponents by squopping opponent winks and by squidging friendly winks into a pot.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as tiddledywinks.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk

Etymologies

  1. Possibly dialectal tiddly, little + wink. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • inktree Other nations are before us
    With their Sputniks and Explorers
    What can confidence restore us?
    Naught but tiddlywinks.
    On the fields of Eton,
    Former foes were beaten.
    But today all patriots play
    This sport which needs such grit and concentration.
    Through this game of skill and power
    England knows her finest hour,
    And her stronghold, shield and tower
    Must be tiddlywinks. May 4, 2009

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