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mum·ble·ty·peg (mum′bəl tē peg′)

noun

a children's game in which a jackknife is tossed in various ways to make it land with the blade in the ground, the loser originally having to draw a peg from the ground with his or her teeth

Etymology: altered < mumble-the-peg < mumble, to bite

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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