Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game in which players toss rings at a stake so as to encircle it or come closer to it than the other players.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
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- noun Alternative form of
ring toss .
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Examples
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We wandered around for hours, playing ringtoss and roulette, going on the teacup ride that whips you into a frenzy as if you were caught inside a centrifuge.
Diversion Meg Wolitzer 2011
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They walked past the dark ringtoss booth and around the gentle northern curve of the lake.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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They walked past the dark ringtoss booth and around the gentle northern curve of the lake.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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Conrad walked straight over to the ringtoss, and I had to walk superquick to keep up.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Jenny Han 2009
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Beldar's noggin pokes through his sunroof, Prymaat's idea of foreplay is a little ringtoss.
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They arrived in caravans that popped open to reveal the baseball throw, the ringtoss, the balloon darts.
The Tenth Circle Jodi Picoult 2006
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They arrived in caravans that popped open to reveal the baseball throw, the ringtoss, the balloon darts.
The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2006
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"It wouldn't count," you said one morning as we set up our breakfast on the counter of the ringtoss booth: bananas looted from dozing monkeys, apples left out for the Arabian stallions, honey from the trailer of the freak show's Bee Man.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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"It wouldn't count," you said one morning as we set up our breakfast on the counter of the ringtoss booth: bananas looted from dozing monkeys, apples left out for the Arabian stallions, honey from the trailer of the freak show's Bee Man.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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"It wouldn't count," you said one morning as we set up our breakfast on the counter of the ringtoss booth: bananas looted from dozing monkeys, apples left out for the Arabian stallions, honey from the trailer of the freak show's Bee Man.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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