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"cover-down" Definition

  1. a tossing coin with a false cover, enabling either head or tail to be shown, according as the cover is left on or taken off. The cover is more generally called a CAP. This style of cheating is now obsolete. A man who cannot manage to cheat at tossing without machinery is a sorry rogue.

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Position in the dictionary: 804 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: cow-cow, cow-hocked, cow-lick, cowan, cow’s grease, coxy-loxy, crab, crabs, crabshells, crack
Previous words in the dictionary: coventry, cove, couter, couple-beggar, county-crop, country-ship, country-captain, counter-jumper, counter, council-of-ten

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