childhood game; purpose: one is a fox and another is a goose. Fox must find the geese who make trails in the snow.
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Speaker: And there were always the ah- winter-time, I think for recess for me was- was just fun. We would play fox-and-goose. We'd always try and keep the little kids off this section of school yard so that we could make a fox-and-goose big path and then we played that. And snowball fights and forts and um- snowmen and we had a little bit of a rock. |
childhood game; purpose: one is a fox and another is a goose. Fox must find the geese who make trails in the snow. |
To record an adverse vote against (a candidate) for membership of a club or other society by placing a black ball in the ballot box; to exclude (a person) from a club, etc., as the result of such a ballot.
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Speaker: And they were a big name fam-- like, there was the certain names in the area. Londons were- 'cause they've been here for years and years, they owned different businesses and-stuff. And then they didn't help one of their own when they needed help because that one had been black-balled for some reason when they were younger. But there was the big names back when I was a kid. |
To record an adverse vote against (a candidate) for membership of a club or other society by placing a black ball in the ballot box; to exclude (a person) from a club, etc., as the result of such a ballot. |