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词汇 pitch-and-toss
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pitch-and-toss n.

1810, from pitch (v.1) + toss (v.).

A game in which the players pitch coins at a mark, that one whose coin lies nearest to the mark having the privilege of tossing up all the coins together and retaining all the coins that come down " head " up. The next nearest player tosses those that are left, and retains all that come down "head" up, and so on until the coins are all gone. [Century Dictionary]

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