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dook
noun- in the gambling game two-up, a throw of heads three times in a row AUSTRALIA
- The boxer takes a percentage (generally from two shillings to four shillings in the pound) out of the centre each time the spinner has “dooked them” or “done a dook”, which means he has tossed three straight heads. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 102, 1966
- a hand AUSTRALIA, 1924
- I looked around, stuck out my dook and said “G’day Keith”. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 13, 1979
- a fist AUSTRALIA
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 31, 1977
- (especially in Western Australia) a playing marble AUSTRALIA
Has the short vowel of “book” and may be spelt “doog”. - “I haven’t got any dooks,” Rob said. Dooks were hard to come by, with the war on, and the big kids had pretty well cornered the supply. — Randolph Stow, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, p. 81, 1965
- D’ya want a game of doogs, Johnny? — Wordmap (www.abc.net.au/wordmap), 2003
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