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dicing

[ dahy-sing ]

noun

  1. gambling or playing with dice. die.
  2. ornamentation, especially of leather, with squares or diamonds.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dicing1

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; dice, -ing 1

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Example Sentences

But then in 2011 he weaponized comedy, slicing and dicing his political rivals in the same way a comedian deals with a heckler.

In 2009, Pfeiffer told David Letterman on Late Night that she won them over by “slicing and dicing Al Pacino.”

At his place gathered all the great of his day, spending hours dicing and drinking punch.

Two things Lord Welter was very fond of—brawling and dicing.

Wine and dicing and women: fine snares the devil sets with these.

At the foot of the inn signpost beggars squatted—here a leper whining monotonously, there lustier vagrants dicing for supper.

But Lavinia, it appeared, was going to watch the dicing at Richard's table: she vowed she should bring him monstrous good luck.

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