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n. - A game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground.

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Usage examples (27)
  • Ferguson started playing mumblety-peg on his desk top.
  • It was like the game of mumblety-peg Henley had taught him.
  • We dallied too long at a best-of-seven series of mumblety-peg by the Great Rock.
  • He devoted his leisure to complicated games of mumblety-peg with the Rainey boys.
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