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hunt the slipper

noun

  1. a children's game in which the players look for a hidden slipper or other object, such as a thimble ( hunt the thimble )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Then after the songs came some games, one of them a Russian version of “hunt the slipper,” and another very like “kiss in the ring.”

Near the tent, Hunt the Slipper and Kiss in the Ring were in progress, and Moneymusk was being danced to the strains of the Chippinge church band; the shrill voices of the rustic youth proving that their first shyness was wearing off.

Remnants of many of these dances remain to-day in the games played by children and country people; “Hunt the Slipper,” “Kiss in the Ring,” “Here we go round the Mulberry Bush,” are examples.

Just fancy, if you can, Professor Faraday playing "petits jeux," or Wollaston engaged at "hunt the slipper."

The game of "Hunt the Slipper" used frequently to be called "Cat and Mouse-hunting."

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