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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros