pitch-and-toss的词源解释,pitch-and-toss来源

1810年，由 pitch（v.1）和 toss（v.）组成。

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]

一种游戏，玩家将硬币投向一个标记，最靠近标记的人有权将所有硬币一起抛起，并保留所有“正面”朝上的硬币。下一个最近的玩家投掷剩下的硬币，并保留所有“正面”朝上的硬币，以此类推，直到所有硬币都用完。[世纪词典]

该词起源时间：1810年