Frisbee
name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of Frisbee (an object) alt-of, alternative, countable
- 2 A disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee. countable, uncountable
- 3 a light, plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter; propelled with a flip of the wrist for recreation or competition wordnet
- 4 Alternative form of Frisbee (a sport) alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 5 A frisbee, a disk-shaped gliding toy of any brand. broadly, countable, uncountable
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- 6 frisbee: the sport involving Frisbees. uncountable
- 1 Alternative form of Frisbee. alt-of, alternative
"Adrian went up to the stereo, took off the record and frisbee'd it out of the open window. Gary watched it skim across the Court."
- 2 To throw something in the manner of a Frisbee.
"The bartender Frisbeed a cardboard coaster to the patron at the end of the bar."
- 1 A trademarked brand name of disc-shaped gliding toy.
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More examples"Tom is outside playing frisbee with his dog."
Etymology
A genericization of the trademark Frisbee.
1957, brand name Frisbee was trademarked in 1959 by Fred Morrison, later acquired by Wham-O. From an alteration of frisbie, applied to the disk game by U.S. college students who tossed pie plates from Mrs. Frisbie's Pies, Frisbie Bakery, Bridgeport Ct., since the 1930s. From the English family name Frisby attested 1226, from the toponym attested 1086 in Frisby on the Wreak, Leicestershire, from Old Danish Frisby (“Frisian village”).
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