pitching pennies

American  

noun

1. a gambling game in which pennies are tossed to a mark or against a wall, the winner being the person whose penny lands closest to the mark or wall.

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Example Sentences

If you tried pitching pennies onto your sloping coffee table, you’d have a hard time keeping them from sliding off, given its right-to-left slant and front-to-back cant.

From Golf Digest • Jun. 7, 2018

For lack of a study hall, students spend free periods lounging in the graffiti-smeared corridors, often whiling their time away pitching pennies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three idle newsmen were pitching pennies on the marble floor of a House Office Building hall outside the door of the Ways & Means Committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was pitching pennies at six; by adolescence he was playing poker with workingmen beneath lampposts on Tenth Avenue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Him and his friends sitting on their bikes in front of the house, pitching pennies.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros