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- noun A
call in any children's game, such asjacks , wherethree actions must be performed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She looked over the ledge and saw three girls playing jacks on a stoop across the street, seated on different steps, the girl with the ball still-bodied and hunched, only her hand working among the strewn jacks, frantically, and Klara could hear them calling threesies and kissies and interference, an argument breaking out, steely and clear.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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She looked over the ledge and saw three girls playing jacks on a stoop across the street, seated on different steps, the girl with the ball still-bodied and hunched, only her hand working among the strewn jacks, frantically, and Klara could hear them calling threesies and kissies and interference, an argument breaking out, steely and clear.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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She looked over the ledge and saw three girls playing jacks on a stoop across the street, seated on different steps, the girl with the ball still-bodied and hunched, only her hand working among the strewn jacks, frantically, and Klara could hear them calling threesies and kissies and interference, an argument breaking out, steely and clear.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Then threesies and foursies, making similar substitutions.
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There are four series of steps: onesies, twosies, threesies, and foursies.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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There are four series of steps: onesies, twosies, threesies, and foursies.
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Then threesies and foursies, making similar substitutions.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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This morning, while my hard drive was scanning, I won threesies at solitaire.
locking myself out... impetuousme 2004
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"Only ones you might know would be that dancer, Tamara, and the two dudes she's been playing threesies with."
Children Of The Night Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Importantly, we have about 1,000 independent centers X-years ago and there's about 1,000 independent centers today because of basic growth in the market and it's very important to know that these independent centers, many of them are onesie, twosies, threesies, foursies and they cannot go out of business.
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