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Frisbee
(friz′bē)
☆
a plastic, saucer-shaped disk sailed back and forth between players in a simple game
Origin: altered < Frisbie: tins from “Mother Frisbie's” pies were orig. used for the game by students at Yale University
noun
- such a disk
- the game played with it
See Frisbee in American Heritage Dictionary 4
A trademark used for a plastic disk-shaped toy that players throw and catch. This trademark sometimes occurs in print meaning “a throw-and-catch game played with this toy”: “The Mall is a better place to play Frisbee with a dog” (Los Angeles Times).
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