padiddle

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interjection

An exclamation shouted during a game by the first player that sees an automobile with only one lit headlight, the said person being allowed to kiss or strike one of the other players.

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

interjection
  1. An exclamation shouted during a game by the first player that sees an automobile with only one lit headlight, the said person being allowed to kiss or strike one of the other players.

    "Let's play ‘padiddle’... When a car goes by with one headlight if I say padiddle you have to give me a kiss!"

    1948 May 23, Bob Montana, Nevada State Journal, Reno, NV, Comics section, Archie
nounpadiddle (countable and uncountable, plural padiddles)

plural padiddles

  1. Midwestern USuncountableThe game itself.
  2. Midwestern UScountableAn automobile spotted during the play of the game.
Cite this entry
APA

padiddle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/padiddle

MLA

“padiddle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/padiddle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “padiddle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/padiddle.

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