英语词汇“to roll bones”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P6. U.S. slang. to roll (the, them) bones: to play dice.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (intransitive)]

taveleOE

dicec1440

rifle1590

to shake the elbow1705

jeff1837

to touch ivory1864

to roll (the, them) bones1891

1891 Atlanta Constit. 9 June 1/6 He was a habitue of gambling houses and rolled the bones for very high stakes.

1892 Chicago Tribune 10 Sept. 3/4 The crap games were patronized principally by the colored 'longshoremen, who rolled the ‘bones’ out on the wharf, and called out for ‘little Joe’ and ‘Kans' City seben’ until they could be heard across the river.

1929 H. W. Odum in Amer. Mercury Sept. 49/2 So we sets 'round in circle an' starts rollin' them bones.

1945 L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya vii. 127 Today in the colored sections of the city there are always circles of men ‘rollin' the bones’ playing Indian Dice, which is any game of Craps unsupervised by a syndicate and without a player for the ‘house’.

1995 Sports Illustr. 29 May 25/2 Everyone wants to talk basketball, and he just wants to roll bones until dawn.

单词	to roll bones
释义	> as lemmas to roll (the, them) bones P6. U.S. slang. to roll (the, them) bones: to play dice. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (intransitive)] taveleOE dicec1440 rifle1590 to shake the elbow1705 jeff1837 to touch ivory1864 to roll (the, them) bones1891 1891 Atlanta Constit. 9 June 1/6 He was a habitue of gambling houses and rolled the bones for very high stakes. 1892 Chicago Tribune 10 Sept. 3/4 The crap games were patronized principally by the colored 'longshoremen, who rolled the ‘bones’ out on the wharf, and called out for ‘little Joe’ and ‘Kans' City seben’ until they could be heard across the river. 1929 H. W. Odum in Amer. Mercury Sept. 49/2 So we sets 'round in circle an' starts rollin' them bones. 1945 L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya vii. 127 Today in the colored sections of the city there are always circles of men ‘rollin' the bones’ playing Indian Dice, which is any game of Craps unsupervised by a syndicate and without a player for the ‘house’. 1995 Sports Illustr. 29 May 25/2 Everyone wants to talk basketball, and he just wants to roll bones until dawn. extracted from rollv.² < as lemmas
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