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/kɝbi/ · noun
(UK) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound..
It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football. For a December night, the weather isn't bad.
I'd play kerby in the street for hours looking up at contrails stretching across grey slate skies, wishing I was on a plane too, jetting away to somewhere else.
The heat from the tarmac refracted the light and disturbed the vision of the children as they persisted in their game of kerby.
Use kerby when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Kerby means (UK) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football. For a December night, the weather isn't bad.
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