Meaning of toodlum buck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The game of crown and anchor.
   Canada, New-Zealand, obsolete, uncountable
2. A betting game involving a spinner marked with horses’ names.
   Australia, archaic, uncountable
3. The piece of wood (cat) that is struck in tipcat.
   Australia, uncountable
4. A carnival game in which marbles were thrown at holes or at buttons on the ends of sticks.
   New-Zealand, uncountable

Examples

“toodle-em-buck, the game of crown and anchor”

“TOODLUM BUCKS: A Crown and Anchor game, 10/6 for 7/6.”

“I regard these games as more or less of the same class as the Toodlum-buck I played when a youngster.”

“But children of the early 1900's had a gambling custom—extinct now, as far as I could learn—claiming the picturesque name of “Toodlembuck” and employing a unique handmade gambling wheel and “cherry bobs” (cherry stones cherries are in season at Melbourne Cup time) for money.”

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