He lost his marbles after his wife left him and took the kids.
Marble playing slang for keeps.
Synonyms for marbles include commonsense mind reason sense wits daylights head saneness sanity and intelligence.
Keepsies playing for keeps.
Choose how you re playing in advance so you know what to expect while playing.
Alley is short for alabaster.
Marbles decrease grip causing cars to crash in corners.
Auto racing term for a ball of rubber on the track that has come off of a tire.
Playing for keeps when the game is over each player gets to keep the marbles he shot out of the ring.
Playing for keeps means that any competitor s marbles you knock out are added to your personal collection.
Brain cells sometimes used to illustrate the lack of.
To become angry go crazy freak out.
A rule established before the game that allows players to quit at any time with no consequence quitsies or with a penalty no quitsies.
Quitsies or no quitsies.
Playing only for the results of a game.
A larger marble used to knock smaller marbles out of the ring.
At this point the players should decide if they are playing for fun or for keepsies if playing for fun the same marbles are placed back into the ring after each game.
Histing lifting your knuckle from the ground while shooting.
Playing for fair when the game is over the players get their marbles back.
Whoever knocks marbles out of the ring gets to keep them.
All of the marbles won are returned either to their owner or to the tournament.
Usually used in the plural.
Oddly enough the origin of the phrase losing your marbles can t definitively be.
Decide whether you want to play for keeps.
Multiple marbles take over entire racing lanes on the outside of normal racing grooves or lanes.
If playing for keepsies the winners of each game keep all of the played marbles and each player antes up new marbles for the next round.
See more words with the same meaning.
Verb to go insane.
Alley a marble made of marble.
You get to keep all the marbles you win.
Aggie either a marble made out of agate or a glass marble that looks like it s agate.
Bombsies dropping your shooter on the target marble.
A glass or imitation aggie is also called an immie.
Drivers compare driving on marbles to driving on ice.
Also used as a general term for cheating.
Easing your hand over the ring line before shooting.
