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Noun

1. 1
   A small person-shaped figure used as a player's token in a board game.

   "For quotations using this term, see Citations:meeple."

Synonyms

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board game pieceman

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"For quotations using this term, see Citations:meeple."

Etymology

Blend of my + people. Coined by Alison Hansel in November 2000 during a game of Carcassonne on the South Shore of Massachusetts.

Related phrases

board game

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