coconut shy

noun

1. a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands

Example Sentences

The home, which features a retro bowling alley, a basketball arcade game and a coconut shy above the sink, went on the market in 2019.

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But with fears that eyes may be on phone screens following the game, rather than concentrating on the coconut shy, some schools have changed their plans.

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There will be demonstrations on Friday evening in Glasgow and again on Saturday in Edinburgh at noon, where organisers promise a “carnival of resistance” against Trump with stalls, talks, music and games such as “Toss the welly at Trump”, “Trump’s head coconut shy” and, of course, “Mini golf”.

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“Her greatest material treasure was an egregiously shiny bit of tin she’d won at a fairground coconut shy; this fact can’t be denied.”

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“Too far south,” Spence said, before I could ask whether we might encounter members of the Spence clan manning the bumper cars or the coconut shy.

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