"billiken" meaning in English

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      "form": "billikens",
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      "expansion": "billiken (plural billikens)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "Billiken"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Dorothy Jean Ray, Artists of the Tundra and the Sea, page 123",
          "text": "Other experiments have been made with the billiken but none so successful as the milliken. One is the rarely seen \"billiken in a barrel,\" a male billiken with movable genitals. Carvers occasionally have attempted to portray billikens in different positions or in action, for example, \"Spike\" Milligrock's billiken bowing in a Japanese-like posture, which had little success.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, The Alaska Journal - Volumes 2-4, page 26",
          "text": "Happy Jack made his first ivory billiken in 1909, the commercial ones were at the height of their success — having taken the country by storm — but by 1912 they had plunged to oblivion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Nancy Gates, The Alaska Almanac: Facts about Alaska",
          "text": "Florence Pretz of Kansas City patented the billiken in 1908.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of Billiken"
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  "word": "billiken"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "billikens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "billiken (plural billikens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "Billiken"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, Dorothy Jean Ray, Artists of the Tundra and the Sea, page 123",
          "text": "Other experiments have been made with the billiken but none so successful as the milliken. One is the rarely seen \"billiken in a barrel,\" a male billiken with movable genitals. Carvers occasionally have attempted to portray billikens in different positions or in action, for example, \"Spike\" Milligrock's billiken bowing in a Japanese-like posture, which had little success.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, The Alaska Journal - Volumes 2-4, page 26",
          "text": "Happy Jack made his first ivory billiken in 1909, the commercial ones were at the height of their success — having taken the country by storm — but by 1912 they had plunged to oblivion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Nancy Gates, The Alaska Almanac: Facts about Alaska",
          "text": "Florence Pretz of Kansas City patented the billiken in 1908.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Billiken"
      ],
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  "word": "billiken"
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