pitch-and-toss

American  

[pich-uhn-taws, -tos] / ˈpɪtʃ ənˈtɔs, -ˈtɒs /

noun

1. a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.

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pitch-and-toss British  

noun

1. a game of skill and chance in which the player who pitches a coin nearest to a mark has the first chance to toss all the coins, winning those that land heads up

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Etymology

Origin of pitch-and-toss

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

Come along, Giles; get the bar for throwing, and the ball, and who said pitch-and-toss?

From Project Gutenberg

If it came on to rain, Andy would say, "much-a-wanted;" if macaroni, which the Irishmen unaccountably disliked, were served up from the dinner-boiler, he met it with the same exclamation; if he got a newspaper from home, or won a mezzo-baioccho at pitch-and-toss, it was alike.

From Project Gutenberg

So if Fowler cannot promise Pitch-and-toss shall be Game of chance, far-banished from his Skimmers of the sea, Better 'gainst our woes we gird us— Cold, and stench, and spray— Than in railway train you herd us, Nausea's helpless prey!

From Project Gutenberg

Sir Massingberd would have forced a dying man to play with him at pitch-and-toss, if so inopportune a game had happened to take his fancy.

From Project Gutenberg

Many had already stripped themselves to their rags at pitch-and-toss in Jago Court; and the game still went busily on in the crowded area and in overflow groups in Old Jago Street; and men found themselves deprived, not merely of the money for that day's food and that night's lodging, but even of the last few pence set by to back a horse for Tuesday's race.

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