noun

• A children's game in which one player hides an object, traditionally a thimble, and the other players have to find it.

  ‘you could while away a long journey playing hunt the thimble’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Hunt the thimble used to be a popular childhood game.’
  • ‘He is playing a game of hunt-the-thimble, searching every corner of the room.’
  • ‘June played a series of traditional games with her mother, including Hunt the Thimble.’
  • ‘I thought of the old childhood game of hunt-the-thimble, which I used to play with an aunt.’
  • ‘"I don't want to play hunt the thimble with Bobbie again; he hides things in such very odd places!"’