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

Across town, in the Ringland shopping centre, a blasted concrete nightmare that makes John Frost Square look like the Champs-Élysées, four youths are playing pitch-and-toss with pound coins – much more Ringland's game than golf.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010

They invite me to play pitch-and-toss, but they look pretty good and I decide that claiming any losses on expenses might prove difficult.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010

Kipling's instructions are clear enough: ;'If you can make one heap of all your winnings;/ And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings .

From Time Magazine Archive

"We'd play pitch-and-toss, and then I'd palm a ha' penny, and Jim he'd never twig."

From Wikkey A Scrap by Vaders, Henrietta

A group of dirty children will be found disporting at marbles or pitch-and-toss on the paved recess in front; but neither would that scene be found in any kind of harmony with the house itself.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert