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词组 kidstakes
释义 kidstakes
noun
childish behaviour, especially childish pretence or kidding around; joking AUSTRALIA, 1912
From “kid” (to trick) and “stakes” (games, competitive undertaking). This unusual sense for the word “stakes” is also found in the obsolete Australian World War 1 slang term “bluff-stakes” (a deceitful attempt to coerce someone by bluffing).
  • Reg was too fast off the mark and all his kidstakes during the afternoon had probably been caused by his jealousy of Peter South. — Gavin Casey, Downhill is Easier, p. 138, 1946
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