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balut

balut

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A dice game played with five dice where players try to roll specific combinations
  • noun
  • US
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  • The rules of balut are easy to pick up, making it a favorite at family gatherings.

Examples

  • He learned to play balut while stationed overseas and now enjoys teaching it to friends.

  • Let's play balut tonight!

  • Every Friday night, the club hosts a balut tournament for its members.

  • I love playing balut with my friends.

  • We sat around the table, enjoying a game of balut as we tried to achieve the best dice combinations.

  • At the family gathering, my cousins taught me how to play balut for the first time.

  • The children were excited as they rolled the dice in the game of balut hoping for the highest score.

Surface Forms

balut singular
baluts plural

Etymology

Balut (the dice game) probably took its name from the Filipino snack balut; one popular story says soldiers in the Philippines began calling their Yahtzee-like game by that local name, so today balut can mean this kind of dice game.