| 单词 | kick-the-can |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskick-the-can kick-the-can n. (also kick-the-tin, etc.) a children's game in which a tin can is kicked (fully described in I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games (1969) 164–6). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > kick the can lerky1902 kick-the-can1909 1909 Notes & Queries 5 June 445/2 Children's games in Orkney... Kick the tinnie. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xviii. 377 Orthodox games like ‘Kick the Can’ and ‘Jacky Shine a Light’. 1959 B. Sutton-Smith Games N.Z. Children ii. 58 More popular were those games in which the players helped one another to fight the He, and of these the most widespread was the game known as Kick the Tin. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 59 Kick-ther-can, a form of street football, using old tin cans. 1971 Stornoway Gaz. 10 July 1/8 Children are inventive folk, They make their own best ploys. Smooring, leevo, kick the can, Sufficed when we were boys. 1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years viii. 86 My father called me in from outside, kick the can or one of those games we used to play. < as lemmas |
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