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| shuttlecock [ shútt'l kok ] |
noun (plural shuttlecocks) |
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1. object hit in badminton: a small rounded piece of cork or rubber attached to a cone of feathers that is hit back and forth in badminton and in the old game of battledore
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2. subject of argument: something that is continually argued about by two opposing sides
  The sovereignty of the island became a shuttlecock between the two countries.
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transitive verb (3rd person present singular shuttlecocks, present participle shuttlecocking, past and past participle shuttlecocked) |
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send something back and forth: to toss or send something back and forth
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| [Early 16th century. Shuttle probably < its going back and forth, like the shuttle in a loom; cock< the feathers, like a bird's crest] |
