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padiddle

padiddle interjection: an exclamation shouted during a game by the first player that sees an automobile with only one lit headlight, the said person being allowed to kiss or strike one of the other players.

Interjection

  1. An exclamation shouted during a game by the first player that sees an automobile with only one lit headlight, the said person being allowed to kiss or strike one of the other players.
    • "Let's play ‘padiddle’... When a car goes by with one headlight if I say padiddle you have to give me a kiss!"1948 May 23, Bob Montana, Nevada State Journal, Reno, NV, Comics section, Archie

Noun

padiddle (countable and uncountable, plural padiddles)

  1. (Midwestern-US, uncountable) The game itself.
  2. (Midwestern-US, countable) An automobile spotted during the play of the game.

Forms of padiddle

pluralpadiddles

Questions about padiddle

What does padiddle mean?
Padiddle means an exclamation shouted during a game by the first player that sees an automobile with only one lit headlight, the said person being allowed to kiss or strike one of the other players.
What part of speech is padiddle?
Padiddle can be an interjection or a noun.

Words near padiddle in the dictionary

  1. Padgett
  2. Padgham
  3. padi
  4. Padia
  5. Padias
  6. padiddle
  7. padiddles
  8. Padiham
  9. Padilla
  10. Padilla-Gomez
  11. Padillas

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