marbles
noun B1- Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass). · Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses.
- Sanity. · Grandpa's lost his marbles, but at least he still recognizes us.· Granny's still got all her marbles.
- Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
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“These are but indifferent marbles in this antechamber,” said Monte Cristo.
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