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Date: 1900-2000
Language: Yiddish
Origin: dreidl, from dreien 'to turn'

dreidel

 noun
     
drei‧del [countable]
a top (=a toy that you spin) with a Hebrew letter on each of its four sides and a point at the bottom, used in a game played during Hanukkah
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