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单词 roll-down
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roll-downn.

Brit. /ˈrəʊldaʊn/, U.S. /ˈroʊlˌdaʊn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: roll v.2, down adv.
Etymology: < roll v.2 + down adv.
U.S. Now chiefly historical.
More fully (Japanese) roll down game. A game, usually played at a fair or arcade, in which balls are rolled on a board into numbered holes or slots. Also occasionally: a table or stall at which this is played.
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1915 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 27 Jan. 8/5 George McNally of Bangor with Japanese roll down game.
1918 Los Angeles Times 6 Oct. i. 11/3 The so-called roll-down games operated in connection with ‘country stores’ in Redondo Beach and other beach cities are illegal.
1920 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1919 (U.S.) 803/1 Games. Apparatus for playing roll-down.
1926 Variety 29 Dec. 7/4 The outdoor show game with its ‘rag front’,..‘roll downs’, [etc.].
1963 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 10 Oct. b46/1 Mrs. Ralf Weber, ways and means chairman, is in charge of all arrangements for the ‘Six Ball Roll Down’ game booth the group sponsors.
1999 M. Wallis Real Wild West xxxiii. 389 All the additional money the Millers' performers had left at the city's numerous brothels, saloons, and gambling dens, where they played roll-down games, razzle-dazzle, and chuck-a-luck.

Compounds

roll-down table n. a table on which roll-down is played (rare).
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1943 K. 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.
1959 Billboard 27 July 79/3 (advt.) Fair season is here... Under 11 or over 30 rolldown tables... 40.00.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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