diabolo
Americannoun
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a game in which a toplike object is spun, thrown, and caught by or balanced on and whirled along a string the ends of which are fastened to the ends of two sticks that are manipulated by hand.
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the top used in this game.
noun
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a game in which one throws and catches a spinning top on a cord fastened to two sticks held in the hands
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the top used in this game
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Etymology
Origin of diabolo
1905–10; < Italian: literally, devil
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In July, a diabolo instructor, Lu Chi-hsien, and four others were detained for allegedly setting up a spy network.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023
Leroux says circus mania starts young; his fourth-grade daughter’s gym curriculum includes spinning diabolo sticks.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2015
The Smirnovs, quick-change artists, take the stage before Ms. España and the Anastasinis assemble for diabolo, a form of juggling.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2014
The aforesaid—if I spoke of hi before—Gorman O'Shea, having, suadente diabolo, smashed down doors and windows, palisadings and palings, and broke open cabinets, chests, cupboards, and other contrivances.
From Lord Kilgobbin by Lever, Charles James
How the diabolo I, such an innocent stranger youth, had ever learned Spanish Gypsy—the least knowledge of which in Spain implies unfathomable iniquity p. 116and fastness—was beyond all comprehension.
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
To Muslims, he is Iblis, a word perhaps derived from the Greek diabolos, the proudest of all God's creatures.
From Time Magazine Archive
D’Herbelot supposes this title to have been a corruption of the Greek Διαβολος, diabolos.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
The word "devil" comes from the Greek "diabolos," which means "one prone to slander; a liar."
From The World English Bible (WEB): by Anonymous
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