Poohsticks
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Definitions
- 1 A game for two or more players in which each player throws a stick into a river from the upstream side of a bridge crossing it, the winner being the player whose stick emerges first on the other side.
"And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented, and which he and his friends used to play on the edge of the Forest. […] Now one day Pooh and Piglet and Rabbit and Roo were all playing Poohsticks together."
Example
More examples"And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented, and which he and his friends used to play on the edge of the Forest. […] Now one day Pooh and Piglet and Rabbit and Roo were all playing Poohsticks together."
Etymology
From Pooh + sticks, coined by the English author Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) in his book The House at Pooh Corner (1928): see the quotation.
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