three-up
English
Noun
- (gambling) A gambling game played with three coins.
- c.1880: a low gambling game by tossing up three pennies or other coins and crying to them — The Detectives' Handbook, published in Australia. Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI, end of section 3, page 247.
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gambling game
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