Definitions for diabolo

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diabolo di·ab·o·lo

Spelling: [dee-ab-uh-loh]

IPA: /diˈæb əˌloʊ/

Diabolo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in diabolo (abdiloo).

Definitions for diabolo

noun

1. a game in which a toplike object is spun, thrown, and caught by or balanced on and whirled along a string the ends of which are fastened to the ends of two sticks that are manipulated by hand.
2. the top used in this game.

Origin of diabolo

1905-10; Italian: literally, devil

Examples for diabolo

We invented and played at 'diabolo' when the Britons were painted blue and lived in the woods.

They are the dicone (the shape of a diabolo) and the cylinder.

Segovia still carries on her shield this "Puente del diabolo," with the head of a Roman peering above it.

All things and all thoughts come back in this play like the top spun by a skilful player of diabolo.

What you call Socialism is his intellectual equivalent for diabolo and Limerick competitions.