Meaning & use
roque
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A game similar to croquet, played on a hard, walled court with short-handled mallets and numbered balls.
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Roque was once popular enough in the United States to be included in the 1904 Olympic Games.
The retirement community still had an old roque court tucked behind the clubhouse.
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A faster-paced American variant of croquet; its name is thought to derive from croquet with the c and t removed.
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