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

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pitch-and-toss

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

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

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames

"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