hunt the slipper

noun

1. a children's game in which the players look for a hidden slipper or other object, such as a thimble ( hunt the thimble )

Example Sentences

Then after the songs came some games, one of them a Russian version of “hunt the slipper,” and another very like “kiss in the ring.”

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Near the tent, Hunt the Slipper and Kiss in the Ring were in progress, and Moneymusk was being danced to the strains of the Chippinge church band; the shrill voices of the rustic youth proving that their first shyness was wearing off.

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Remnants of many of these dances remain to-day in the games played by children and country people; “Hunt the Slipper,” “Kiss in the Ring,” “Here we go round the Mulberry Bush,” are examples.

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Just fancy, if you can, Professor Faraday playing "petits jeux," or Wollaston engaged at "hunt the slipper."

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The game of "Hunt the Slipper" used frequently to be called "Cat and Mouse-hunting."

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