Frisbee

(friz)

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

  1. such a disk
  2. 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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