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coconut shies

coconut shies is the plural of coconut shy.

Meaning of coconut shy

Noun

coconut shy (plural coconut shies)

  1. A traditional fairground amusement where customers throw balls at a row of coconuts in an attempt to knock one off its support and thereby win it.
    • With his two aides he had wandered around and had a few goes on the coconut shy, but he was so strong that one of the balls had not only knocked the coconut off its stand but split the stand in two.2012, Lynda La Plante, The Legacy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

Questions about coconut shies

What is coconut shies the plural of?
Coconut shies is the plural of coconut shy.

Words near coconut shies in the dictionary

  1. coconut pearl
  2. coconut pearls
  3. coconut sap
  4. coconut saps
  5. coconut shells
  6. coconut shies
  7. coconut shy
  8. coconut snowball
  9. coconut snowballs
  10. coconut soup
  11. coconut soups

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