shut|tle|cock

shut|tle|cock
shut|tle|cock «SHUHT uhl KOK», noun, verb.
–n.
1. a cork or piece of rubber with feathers or a plastic webbing stuck in one end, used in the game of badminton; bird.
2. a) a cork with feathers stuck in one end, that is hit back and forth by a small racket, called a battledore, in the old game of battledore and shuttlecock. b) = battledore and shuttlecock. (Cf. ↑battledore and shuttlecock)
–v.t.
to throw or send backward and forward.
–v.i.
to move to and fro; shuttle: »

The hot, tired, apologetic traveler shuttlecocks between one uniformed official…and another, getting more hot, more tired, more apologetic (Mary Goldring).


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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