Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
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.
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noun
Alternative spelling of Saluki (“a breed of hound originating in the Middle East”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A keep-away game in which children throw around an object with the aim of keeping it away from a particular child (often the owner of the object) or from another group of children; keepings off.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-York, US, informal, uncountable
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Synonyms: keep-away, monkey in the middle, piggy in the middle
Antonyms: none provided
History
See Saluki.
Unknown. Attested in print from the 1950s; likely used earlier.
