"kerby" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From kerb + -y.",
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          "ref": "2011, Adrian McKinty, Dead I Well May Be, page 133:",
          "text": "It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football. For a December night, the weather isn't bad.",
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          "ref": "2014, Simon Danczuk, Matt Baker, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith:",
          "text": "I'd play kerby in the street for hours looking up at contrails stretching across grey slate skies, wishing I was on a plane too, jetting away to somewhere else.",
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          "text": "The heat from the tarmac refracted the light and disturbed the vision of the children as they persisted in their game of kerby.",
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        "A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound."
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        "(British English) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound."
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    {
      "homophone": "curby"
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    {
      "homophone": "kirby"
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          "ref": "2014, Simon Danczuk, Matt Baker, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith:",
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        "(British English) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound."
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