Meanings
- A children's game, a variant of prisoners' bars.
I remember all the kids used to play a game called beckons wanted, right out there.
1996, "Piper Maru" (episode of The X-Files TV series)1 more example
In her recollection he was awkward physically and knew it. Invited to summer outings at the Bigelow home on Manitou Island (in White Bear Lake), he participated in such childhood games as beckons wanted but was regularly beaten in high-jump contests […]
2004, Harold L. Weatherby, Walter Sullivan, George Core, Place in American Fiction: Excursions and Explorations, page 161
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