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ˈroll down, roll-down
[f. to roll down.]
A game in which balls are rolled down a board into numbered holes, slots, or the like; a table or stall where this is played. Also attrib.
1926Variety 29 Dec. 7/4 The outdoor show game with its ‘rag front’,..‘roll downs’, [etc.]. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §626/21 Roll-down, a gambling device using small balls rolling down between pins to holes in the bottom of the table. 1943K. Tennant Ride on Stranger vii. 61 But the Roll-Down Table was not doing too badly despite the rain... The players could shelter while they rolled the billiard balls down the green felt into shallow cups. |