Word: squopping
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...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...
...players usually manage to recall squidging techniques from their childhood days. But the squop shot is entirely new to them, and on the tour the usual death knell to a strong U.S. squidging attack was the glad British cry, "Well squopped!" The English winkers - Freeman. 23, Philip Moore, 21, David Willis, 23, and Eliza beth King, 22 - found most U.S. opposition easy, but the easiest was the team of New York Giants, including Offensive Tackle Roosevelt Brown and Halfback Bob Gaiters. The match was defaulted by the Giants. "We apparently were too frightening in our warmup." said Free man. "Brown...
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