Word: squidger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gittleman introduced me around camp. Winkers have nicknames, but not like Bubba or Moose or Sugar Ray. More like Blue or "L" or Moishe or Ferd. Gittleman then handed me a squidger (a large, thick chip used to flip tiddlywinks around) and said, "Kid, how'd you like to play a game with...
...players, when they are able to recall the game at all, play only children's rules, thereby missing the delicate stratagems that color international play. In understanding the international version, two specialized verbs are crucial: to "squidge" is to press a small wink with a large one (the squidger), sending it flipping through the air toward the target cup at the center of the table; to "squop" is to squidge a wink onto an opponent's wink, thereby temporarily retiring the enemy wink from play...
| 1 |