Meaning & use

Tiddlywink

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One of the small plastic or metal discs flicked into a cup in the game of tiddlywinks.

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A tiddlywink skittered off the table and rolled under the couch.

He practiced flicking a single tiddlywink into the cup from across the room.

A note on using this word

The singular 'tiddlywink' is rarely used outside references to the game itself, which is almost always called by its plural name, 'tiddlywinks.'

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