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kerby
/kɝbi/
name 3noun 1
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3VERB + KERBY
game, kids, play, playing
KERBY + NOUN
street
PREP.
in, out
Definitions
noun
1
A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.
It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football. For a December night, the weather isn't bad.
I'd play kerby in the street for hours looking up at contrails stretching across grey slate skies, wishing I was on a plane too, jetting away to somewhere else.
name
1
A surname.
2
A ghost town in Plumas County, California, United States.
3
A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
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It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football. For a December night, the weather isn't bad.
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I'd play kerby in the street for hours looking up at contrails stretching across grey slate skies, wishing I was on a plane too, jetting away to somewhere else.
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The heat from the tarmac refracted the light and disturbed the vision of the children as they persisted in their game of kerby.
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