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[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some of the best-known nicknames in dice are: [...] Decatur, Ada from Decatur, Eighter from Decatur: total of eight.
at Ada from Decatur, n.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some crap-shooting terms fade but a few have proved durable: African dominoes [...] dice.
at African dominoes (n.) under African, adj.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some crap-shooting terms fade but a few have proved durable: African golfer, wangler: crap shooter.
at African golf (n.) under African, adj.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some of the best-known nicknames in dice are: [...] Big Dick, Big Dick from Boston: total of ten.
at big dick (n.) under big, adj.
[US] (con. WWI) ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 And bluejackets and stripers chorused: You learn to splice and shake the dice / And games that sailors play.
at bluejacket, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Transparent, or ‘candy,’ dice were ten dollars and much favored by crap sharks, for, since the metal was in the concave spots, they defied even close inspection.
at candy, adj.2
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some of the best-known nicknames in dice are: [...] Ninety days, Nina: total of nine.
at nina (with her hair down), n.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some crap-shooting terms fade but a few have proved durable: Fade: cover the bet of the thrower.
at fade, v.1
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some of the best-known nicknames in dice are: [...] Fever, Fever in the South (and no doctor): total of five.
at fever, n.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 No matter how tough the police make it, a compulsive ivory roller can find ways and means to pull the law’s leg.
at ivory, n.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some of the best-known nicknames in dice are: [...] Little Dick, Little Joe, Little Joe from Baltimore.
at little Joe (n.) under little, adj.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some of the best-known nicknames in dice are: [...] Little Dick, Little Joe, Little Joe from Baltimore, Little Joe from Kokomo: the total of four.
at little Dick (n.) under little, adj.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some crap-shooting terms fade but a few have proved durable: Mississippi marbles: dice.
at Mississippi marbles (n.) under Mississippi, adj.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some of the best-known nicknames in dice are: [...] Ninety days, Nina: total of nine.
at ninety days (n.) under ninety, adj.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some of the best-known nicknames in dice are: [...] Phoebe, Little Phoebe, Fee-Bee [...] total of five.
at Phoebe, n.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Any professional crap shooter’s game was queered if the quicksilver expanded and fell out [of crooked dice].
at queer, v.
[US] ‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Each manufacturer had his own secret metal used to load the dice and [...] manufacturers always included honest dice with their orders to match the set with ‘work’ in them.
at work, n.
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