Darts is the pub game of throwing small arrows at a round numbered board. Play darts, a game of darts, the darts final.
The board is divided into twenty segments with doubles and trebles, and the standard game starts at 501 and must finish on a double. The treble twenty is worth sixty and is the target for almost every throw. The oche is the line you throw from, at about two point four metres. Note that darts is now a major televised sport with a genuinely enormous following, which surprises people who remember it as a pub game.
1noundartsThe game of throwing small arrows at a round numbered board.
“The men were playing darts in the corner of the pub.”
darts is a game.
Middle English
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English, today
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From dart + -s. dart comes from Middle English dart. From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA