uckersn.
/ˈʌkəz/ A board game resembling ludo, played in the Navy.
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1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 180 Uckers. A game very similar to Ludo, and played on a large board by teams of three or four men.
1976 C. Causley in Cornish Short Stories 63 The rest of the members of the mess—arguing, scuffling, singing, writing, playing uckers.
1978 Navy News Aug. 2/5 A 50-hour uckers match..raised £277 for the Spina Bifida Association.
1979 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. 20 That nautical form of ludo known as ‘ukkers’, and tombola, too, have given way in the patrol craft HMS Vigilant to war-games.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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n.1946- silver-sick
- silver-side
- silver-skin
- silver-solder
- side-spin
- side-splitter
- side-splitting
- side-splittingly
- side-spotted
- side-stick controller
- side-striped
- side-tailed
- side-taking
- side-thread stitch
- side-tiller
- side-tipper
- side-trace
- side-valved
- side-view mirror
- side-waisted
- side-waver
- side-wheeled
- side-wheeler
- side-whisker
- side-whiskered