"able whackets" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from able, as in able seaman, and whack.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Nautical",
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        {
          "ref": "1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time, section IV:",
          "text": "The chief amusement or game in use in the midshipmen's berth, was ‘able whackets’, a pastime in which cards, blasphemy, and hard knocks were agreeably mingled.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 15:",
          "text": "Instead of the usual sailors' games of cards and ablewhackets, there was the clicking of dice, with games of parcheesi unfolding on chequerboards of rope […].",
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      "glosses": [
        "Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as a punishment to the loser of certain card games."
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          "blow"
        ],
        [
          "handkerchief",
          "handkerchief"
        ],
        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical slang, now historical) Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as a punishment to the loser of certain card games."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "abel-wackets"
        },
        {
          "word": "abelwhackets"
        },
        {
          "word": "ablewhackets"
        },
        {
          "word": "ablewackets"
        }
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      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
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  "word": "able whackets"
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  "etymology_text": "Possibly from able, as in able seaman, and whack.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time, section IV:",
          "text": "The chief amusement or game in use in the midshipmen's berth, was ‘able whackets’, a pastime in which cards, blasphemy, and hard knocks were agreeably mingled.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 15:",
          "text": "Instead of the usual sailors' games of cards and ablewhackets, there was the clicking of dice, with games of parcheesi unfolding on chequerboards of rope […].",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as a punishment to the loser of certain card games."
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          "handkerchief"
        ],
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          "card game",
          "card game"
        ]
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        "(nautical slang, now historical) Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as a punishment to the loser of certain card games."
      ],
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        "plural",
        "plural-only",
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        "transport"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "abel-wackets"
    },
    {
      "word": "abelwhackets"
    },
    {
      "word": "ablewhackets"
    },
    {
      "word": "ablewackets"
    }
  ],
  "word": "able whackets"
}