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taw; toy noun- money to start a venture US
A figurative use of a term for the marble a player shoots with in a game of marbles. - “Now you have an opportunity to win it off.” “I got no taw.” — John Ridley, Love is a Racket, p. 41, 1998
- in marbles, a marble used for shooting UK, 1709
- If Babe’s “toy” – the marble you shoot with – would kiss or hit the toy closest to the line, Babe would automatically have first shot at the fish shape full of marbles. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 31, 1978
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