Phrase guide
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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A game where one group has to keep an object, normally a ball, within their group and away from another group or individual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
The player in that game from whom the object is kept away.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Keeping something between one's own group, away from others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
A person caught in an awkward situation between two other people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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History
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