coconut shy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A traditional fairground amusement where customers throw balls at a row of coconuts in an attempt to knock one off its support and thereby win it.
    — With his two aides he had wandered around and had a few goes on the coconut shy, but he was so strong that one of the balls had not only knocked the coconut off its stand but split the stand in two.

词形变化

coconut shies plural
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