squop

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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squop (third-person singular simple present squops, present participle squopping, simple past and past participle squopped)

  1. (tiddlywinks) To play a wink so that it comes to rest vertically above some or all parts of another wink.
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Noun

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squop (plural squops)

  1. (tiddlywinks) A wink that is squopped.
    • 1962 December 14, Life, page 121:
      Hold That Squop!
    • 2007, Forbes, volume 180, numbers 8-13, page 93:
      In the Cambridge-improved version of tiddlywinks, potting isn't everything. [] Most of the matches I watched during the tournament were defensive struggles like this one, games that came down to squops, gromps and Bristols.

References

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Tiddlywinks lexicon, http://www.tiddlywinks.org/lexicon/

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