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sardines

nounnounverbattested in dialogue

A children's game in which the players hide together, lying side by side.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of sardineplural of sardine

Etymology

The game name refers to sardines tightly packed in a can.

noun

  1. 1

    A children's game in which the players hide together, lying side by side.

    As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of sardinethird-person singular simple present indicative of sardine

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).