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battledore and shuttlecock

noun

Definitions

  1. An early version of the game badminton.

    • But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adele and Pilot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock.
    • At night before I slept alternate horrors of ruin buffeted me this way and that in an endless game of battledore and shuttlecock.

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