Entries K to O

K

kick = butt (Cohen, 1977)

kickshot (obsolete) (UK) · n a shot in which the wink is potted after bouncing on the mat (Winking World 5, page 5, 1964)

knock off · shot played with the aim of disturbing another pile or squop and hopefully freeing friendly winks

knock-off-and-squop · shot played to free a friendly wink and squop the opponent who was originally squopping the target pile or squop

kumquat n (US, now rare/obscure) · a variant of a persimmon in which three players play the two colors of a partnership in a game, with one player shooting one color regularly, and the other two players alternating shots with the other color. (October 1978, Harvest tournament.) [From kumquat, the fruit. See persimmon.]

L

L · n American winker Richard Hussong

launch · to shoot a wink from a launching pad

launching pad · n the wink(s) below a wink which can be clicked against it to be sent sharply and with a low trajectory to bomb a pile

Lennon (UK) = n John Lennon memorial shot

line = baseline

linear squop · n a sequence of three or more winks in which each wink (but one) is squopping just one other wink

lip · n upper rim of the pot

little (US) ·  a small wink

London Open · Pairs tournament played annually in London

lose (UK) = vt ¹boondock

lunch · vt to pot an opponent's wink

LUSTS · n Latymer Upper School Tiddlywinks Society

M

Mad Dog · nickname of British winker Andy Purvis

Marchant Games · n an English company which supplied tiddlywinks sets to ETwA and NATwA during the late 1950s, the 1960s, and the early 1970s

Marchant Trophy (UK) · tournament for teams of four, played over the years to different formats and now practically in abeyance. Originally a challenge trophy for all-England champions. Trophy presented originally by Marchant Games [Started in February 1959]

mat · n the surface on which the game of tiddlywinks is played, which is 6 feet long 3 feet wide, and normally made of felt

mat rotation · n system ensuring that in a serious tournament a player cannot play on the same mats too frequently

match points = game points

megacrud (UK) · n an illegal crud shot where the squidger starts high above the intended wink on a pile which is being shot

Mickey Mouse · n (UK) A form of tripleton where the squopped winks are flat and separate, usually all small, so that when squopped, two ears and a mouth/nose stick out [Bancroft]

middle for diddle (UK, especially Relle) · a cry of encouragement preceding the squidge-off

Milton Bradley · n a US manufacturer of tiddlywinks for the general market; usage generally connotes a quality insufficient for tournament play

minimum (US) · n a minimum-sized squidger, 25mm (formerly 1 inch) in diameter

mint-jelly squidger (UK) · n a squidger made of nonrigid plastic, but somewhat more than credit card thickness-often from the lid of a jar of Sainsbury's Mint Jelly (see Winking World 49, page 23)

miracle shot (US) · n a shot which attempts to accomplish objectives which are very unlikely to be achievable

miss-a-turn rule (US) · n the rule that is in effect when players of a game have opted not to use the perimeter rule when a player's wink goes off the playing surface. [First use: June 1993, NATwA Singles]

Missing Wink, The · n a publication of NATwA which appeared from May 1974 to November 1976, during the absence of Newswink. [From "missing link"]

MIT · n a US team

MITASS · n Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Squidgers and Squoppers

MITwA = n MITTwA

MITTwA · n Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tiddlywinks Association

mobile wink · n a wink which is not part of a pile or in the pot. Compare with free wink

M.U.B. · nickname of British winker Richard Moore [= Miserable Unshaven Bastard; see Winking World 52, report of London Open]

Muenster (US) · n a particular large yellow wink of Walmsleys manufacture which is much thicker on one side than the other [played by Sunshine since the 1970s]

murgatroyd (obsolete) (UK) · n a badly manufactured Walmsleys wink which is flat on both sides. [Edwards, in Partridge, 1984]

MUTS · n MIT Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society, circa 1962

My Winkly Reader · n a publication of NATwA which appeared from February 1977 to March 1978, during the absence of Newswink [From My Weekly Reader, publication for elementary school children]

N

NAC (US) · n North American Championship

NATwA · n North American Tiddlywinks Association, founded in 1966

NATwAn · n a member of NATwA

Newswink · n official publication of NATwA, 1969 to present. [From Newsweek, a US weekly news magazine]

NEWTS (UK) · n New London Tiddlywinks Society

nominated wink (UK) · a wink of any color that has been selected by a squopped-out pair to be shot as a consequence of the opponents' failure to free [ETwA rules, May 1992]

nurdle · vt to shoot a wink to land in a nurdled position. (Hull Guildhall, 1962, in Winking World 4, page 11)

nurdle, boondock, penhaligon · British drinking game based on counting

nurdled · adj describing a wink that is very close to the pot, typically beneath the top rim of the pot and hence probably not easy to pot

NUTS · n National Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society (US), 1962-1966

NW · abbreviation for Newswink

O

OAK-BYTE, Oakbyte · n 1. the telephone number at 64 Dane Street in Somerville, Massachusetts. 2. the house at that address, where several winkers lived in the 1970s and 1980s

Old Hall · n winking venue at Queens' College, Cambridge, England

On the Mat · n a report by Guy Consterdine published in March 1967 which described the origins of modern tiddlywinks from 1954 to 1957

"Other Nations" · the anthem of Tiddlywinks, as composed by Rev. E. A. Willis for the Goons match in 1958

out = squopped out

OUTS · n Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society

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