单词 | seven-up |
释义 | seven-upn. 1. Cards (U.S.). A variation of all fours (all fours n. 3) in which seven game points are available per round. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > all fours all fours1674 seven-up1830 old sledge1834 pitch1860 California jack1865 Pedro Sancho1875 cinch1889 high five1889 Californian jack1893 sell-out- 1830 N.Y. Constellation 11 Sept. 2/5 Some tugged at the bottle,..and some played seven-up. 1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xxvii. 245 ‘Euker’, ‘poker’, and ‘seven-up’, the regular mountain-games. 1910 Domest. Engin. 17 Sept. 285/2 Father, you got the high, low, jack and game, and if you cannot stand on those, you are no seven-up player. 1976 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 27 Aug. 6/1 An Atchison man who played seven-up a great deal had trouble with his right hand. 2001 Daily Times (Farmington, New Mexico) 18 Mar. a7/3 They played a game of Seven-Up to decide who should stay and who should go. 2. Now usually in form 7-Up. A proprietary name for: a clear lemon and lime flavoured carbonated soft drink.7-Up originally contained lithium salts and was advertised as a cure for hangovers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > aerated or carbonated drink > [noun] > proprietary drinks Club Soda1877 Coca-Cola1887 Dr Pepper1895 Pepsi-Cola1903 Coke1909 Pepsi1916 seven-up1931 Aqua Libra1987 1928 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 13 Nov. 304/2 ‘Seven Up.’ For carbonated, nonalcoholic, noncereal, maltless beverages sold as soft drinks and syrups, extracts, and flavors used in making the same.] 1931 Monessen (Pa.) Daily Independent 9 Apr. 5/1 Seven-Up Lithiated Lemon Soda is a beverage that you will like. 1931 Monessen (Pa.) Daily Independent 14 Apr. 3/5 A water clear drink, well carbonated and with a positive alkaline reaction—this is Seven-Up—the drink that is so much appreciated by the adult. 1944 C. Porter Compl. Lyrics (1983) 258 Drink to October ale and pink champagne, drink to the 7-Up we got in Maine. 1968 N. Fleming Counter Paradise v. 78 Crystal ordered a coffee for herself and a Seven-Up for Jake. 2006 R. Gunesekera Match (2007) 28 ‘You didn't get any Coke, did you?’ ‘I got a case of 7-Up.’ 3. Originally and chiefly North American. A children's game in which seven chosen participants must each attempt to tap another player in the wider group without being identified. Also called heads up seven up, thumbs up seven up, etc.The seven chosen participants move silently among the rest of the group, who keep their heads down with their eyes closed and (typically) one thumb raised; each of the seven taps one of the group on the head or thumb, after which the players selected in this way try to guess who touched them. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1950 Sioux Center News (Sioux County, Iowa) 14 Dec. We did not go out-doors for our recesses..since the weather was so cold. We learned to play the game, ‘Seven Up’. We like to play it. 1958 Milford (Iowa) Mail 6 Mar. Bobby chose the game, ‘Heads Up, Seven Up’ for the children to play. 1989 Daily Herald (Chicago) 10 Dec. (Neighbor section) 1/5 We'll play basic games such as duck duck goose, spoons and thumbs up seven up. 2005 J. F. David Judgment Day lxix. 350 Seven-up was popular, so she picked seven kids to go first and had the others put their heads down on their desks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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