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▪ I. squop, v. Tiddlywinks.|skwɒp|
Also † squallop (pa. tense and pple. † squapt).
[Of unknown origin.]
1. trans. To cover and immobilize (another's wink) with one's own; also with another player as obj.
1956Minutes Cambr. Univ. Tiddlywinks Club Mar. 12 in G. Consterdine On Mat (1967) 8 If both members of the team have all their winks either cupped or covered, then it shall be said that they are squapt. The verb shall be declined thus: Present I squallop..Past I squapt..Past participle—Squapt..Noun—squap. 1958Sunday Times 2 Mar. 16/3 Mr. Harry Secombe squopted his own captain, who observed irritably that he was a Charlie. 1962Christian Sci. Monitor 1 Oct. 13 In tournament play games are generally limited to 25 minutes, and a scoring system is instigated which takes account of how many winks a team has potted, squopped, etc. 1971Ottawa Citizen 6 Feb. (Canadian Mag.) 24 You can't get something going for you if too many of your winks get squopped by an opponent's wink. 1978Boston Herald American 25 Apr. 6 A gentle shot which either frees one of your winks or squops one of your opponent's winks is referred to as a ‘piddle’.
2. intr. To cover an opponent's wink with one's own.
1963Observer 22 Dec. 11/8 To squop is to cover an opponent's wink. 1971Philadelphia Evening Bull. 13 Feb. 8 Squidgers in hand, the Hark Yon Tree Hath No Leaves But They Will Out Club is off to Toronto to squop and counter-squop for the North American Tiddlywinks Association Championship. 1977Cornell Alumni News July 25 Sunshine tried to defuse the potential blitz by coming inside Drix's zone and threatening to squop.
Hence squopped ppl. a., ˈsquopping vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈsquopper, a player who squops.
1962N.Y. Times 5 Aug. 23 It was in squopping that the British excelled. 1962Time 14 Sept. 56 A squopped wink cannot be squidged again until it is de-squopped, either by the original squopper or by a squopped player's partner. 1962Life 14 Dec. 122 Two-man units each with a powerful offensive squidger and a canny defensive squopper. 1971Ottawa Citizen 22 Jan. 24/1 When it comes to squidging and squopping, Rosemary Wain and Andy Tomaszeuski are two of the best in the business. 1975Sunday Mail Color Mag. (Brisbane) 28 Sept. 21/2 Squopping is the ability to flip one of your winks on top of your opponent's wink—and prevent him playing it. Then the squopped player tries to free his captive counter by squopping the counter on top. 1977Sharp & Piggott Bk. of Games 165 The owner of a squopped wink must wait until it is freed... The owner of a squopping wink..must ensure that his squidger first touched his own wink.
▪ II. squop, n. Tiddlywinks.|skwɒp|
[f. prec.]
The act or achievement of covering an opponent's wink with one's own; a wink squopped in this way.
1962Time 14 Sept. 56 The squop shot is entirely new to them. 1962N.Y. Times 21 Oct. 83 The high point of the match was a septenary squop by Mr. Stein in which he immobilized seven winks with a single shot. 1979Harvard Mag. May–June 40 The wink is shot into a key position, from which it can defend friendly squops, attack enemy squops, or set up a strategic zone. |