diabolo noun. [dɪ'abǝlǝʊ, dʌɪ-] Pl. -os. E20.
[Italian from ecclesiastical Latin diabolus DEVIL noun.]
A game in which a two-headed top is thrown up and caught on a string stretched between two sticks; the top used in this game.

► Earlier called le diable (see DIABLE noun); also the devil on two sticks.

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