单词 | rap-jacket |
释义 | rap-jacketn. U.S. regional (southern and south Midland). Now historical. A whipping game, played esp. by schoolboys (see quot. 1893). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1870 L. Stephens Let. 21 Sept. in J. D. Waddell Biogr. Sketch L. Stephens (1877) 322 I was remarkably good at the game of ‘deer’, when I was a boy, and I was famous at ‘wrap-jacket’. 1881 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus 125 De way he play rap-jacket wuz a caution ter de naberhood. 1893 H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities Speech Mississippi 52 Rap-jacket,..a term used by all classes to mean a game of whipping, in which two boys are given switches, and whip each other with all of their might until one says ‘enough’. They both thus have their jackets thoroughly rapped, if they happen to have on those garments. Two boys who have been fighting at school are very frequently punished by the teacher's making them play rap-jacket until he tells them to stop. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 2/1 He up en say dat he be dad blame ef he ain't gwineter play at rap-jacket wid de whole-hoggers ef he kotch um. 1916 H. Shawmeker Tales from Boy's Fancy 132 The next record rendered was that of a ‘rap-jacket’ contest between two boys. 2004 J. Shrock Gilded Age vii. 125 A typically violent boys' game went by Rap Jacket in the South and Lickety-cut in the North. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1870 |
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