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- barley's
- Crossed fingers when playing tick, tag etc. e.g. "you can't get me I'm on Barley's". Derivation possibly from the French 'parlez'. Lots of words with French origin and mangled More…
- belfast, bell-fast
- Entered verbatim: I played the game that you call nicky-knocky-nine-doors with some of my classmates who were the daughters of "squadies " living on a forces housing estate in More…
- bidgeebuckles
- A curse on your opponent's turn in playing marbles or conkers to ensure they'd miss when it was their turn to play. It was said while at the same time shaking one's hand as if casting a More…
- biscuit
- A legendary and probably apocryphal game where participants masturbate until they ejaculate onto a digestive biscuit. The last person to come had to perform the forfeit of eating said More…
- blind man's bluff
- One person is It. This person gets his or her eyes covered with a blindfold, and then they count to twenty while everyone runs off. It's a game like tag, but with your eyes closed. Now, More…
- blocky, blockie 1-2-3
- Outdoor variation of hide and seek, where the hiders have to try and touch the 'block' (lampost) without getting caught by the seeker, shouting "Blocky 1-2-3 in!". Another wariation More…
- bloody knuckles
- A game in which a coin, usually a quarter, is spun around. The players try to keep it spinning by flicking it with their fingers. Whoever makes the quarter loses, and must put their More…
- bobberknocker
- A weight attached to a length of fishing line (making it virtually invisible) operated from a distance so as to knock on someone's window causing them great confusion. For maximum More…
- bobo see-oughten-taughten
- Bobo see-oughten-taughten. Nay nay, I am-boom boom boom. Itty bitty oughten-taughten, Bobo see-oughten-taughten, Bobo see-oughten-taughten-FREEZE! This is a hand clap game. It's said More…
- bomber, bomper
- Large marble See also: alley, alley bomper
- bone-head
- Alternative name for the game "Headers and Volleys". See also: headers and volleys =circa 1980's, UK
- bonker
- A type of marble that was the next size up from the regular marble and usually worth 3 or 4 marbles in equal value. But not worth quite as as much as a ball-bearing, (ed: contributor says More…
- bosher
- Marble: sized about 1.5 cm in diameter See also: marbles, alley, tenner =UK
- bottle-washer
- Large marble See also: marbles, alley, bomper-alley, silver dolphin =circa 1950-s - 1960's, UK (We)
- botty-blasts
- Situation where a football is repeatedly vollied at someones arse, by a lot of people. See also: goomer =UK (NW)
- brandings
- Branding definition: To throw a ball at someone hard enough to leave a mark. To play brandings you need a tennis ball and a wall, preferably 2 stories or more in height with no windows. More…
- brandy
- Another name for Ball Tiggy used in North western Melbourne schools. See also: tag, tig, ball tiggy, dodge ball
- british bulldog
- (1) Game played on grass in which one person tries to rugby tackle one of the other players running from one side of the field to the other, those caught joining the catcher, until all are More…
- british bulldog (variant)
- Catcher in middle would pick victim who would try to run across small field (we used double tennis court). If touched then victim and catcher would have to hold hands and then chose next More…
- bubble gum, bubble gum
- Way of choosing who was 'it' in a game. Everyone stuck their foot in, and the rhyme would be recited, putting a finger on one foot in for each syllable: 'Bubble gum, Bubble gum in a dish More…
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