Crackaloo

Crackaloo
Crack-loo Crack"-loo`, n. Also Crackaloo Crack"a*loo` . A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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  • Crack-loo — n. Also Crackaloo Crack a*loo . A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers Cant, U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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