put-and-take

American  

[poot-n-teyk] / ˈpʊt nˈteɪk /

noun

1. any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.

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Etymology

Origin of put-and-take

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Perhaps you've tasted it in trout caught from a put-and-take pond.

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023

Unwillingly the reader commences to play put-and-take, acknowledging a score for the author after an especially well-put sentence, taking a point away when a mannerism becomes obvious or the author's pride of word shows through.

From Time Magazine Archive

With his put-and-take top, the youthful-spirited chaplain came more often, and often expressed his regret that we were soon to be away.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

We had not been in the South Basin many minutes when the chaplain of The Missions to Seamen was among us with his witty stories and, I believe, his put-and-take teetotum.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund