Also used as a general term for cheating.
Marble playing slang for keeps.
Brain cells sometimes used to illustrate the lack of.
All of the marbles won are returned either to their owner or to the tournament.
Oddly enough the origin of the phrase losing your marbles can t definitively be.
To become angry go crazy freak out.
Aggie either a marble made out of agate or a glass marble that looks like it s agate.
Verb to go insane.
Usually used in the plural.
In tournament play this is cheating and carries a one shot forfeit.
Marbles can be played either for fair which means that every player keeps their marbles or for keeps if you choose to play for keeps marbles can be won by other players by knocking them out of the ring.
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Playing for keeps when the game is over each player gets to keep the marbles he shot out of the ring.
Histing lifting your knuckle from the ground while shooting.
Easing your hand over the ring line before shooting.
Multiple marbles take over entire racing lanes on the outside of normal racing grooves or lanes.
He lost his marbles after his wife left him and took the kids.
Playing for fair when the game is over the players get their marbles back.
A rule established before the game that allows players to quit at any time with no consequence quitsies or with a penalty no quitsies.
Drivers compare driving on marbles to driving on ice.
Keepsies playing for keeps.
If playing for keepsies the winners of each game keep all of the played marbles and each player antes up new marbles for the next round.
Auto racing term for a ball of rubber on the track that has come off of a tire.
Alley is short for alabaster.
A glass or imitation aggie is also called an immie.
Choose how you re playing in advance so you know what to expect while playing.
A larger marble used to knock smaller marbles out of the ring.
Decide whether you want to play for keeps.
Whoever knocks marbles out of the ring gets to keep them.
You get to keep all the marbles you win.
Playing only for the results of a game.
At this point the players should decide if they are playing for fun or for keepsies if playing for fun the same marbles are placed back into the ring after each game.
Alley a marble made of marble.
Synonyms for marbles include commonsense mind reason sense wits daylights head saneness sanity and intelligence.
Bombsies dropping your shooter on the target marble.
The game is just played for fun rather than to gain marbles.