The Totem Mark

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• Totem tennis — also known as swingball is a game usually played by children. It has a pole, called the totem, with a ball on a string attached to it. Players use small tennis racquet made out of plastic to hit the ball around the pole. The pole has at the… …   Wikipedia

• totem pole — 1. a pole or post carved and painted with totemic figures, erected by Indians of the northwest coast of North America, esp. in front of their houses. 2. a hierarchical system: the bureaucratic totem pole. [1875 80] * * * Carved and painted… …   Universalium

• totem — totemic /toh tem ik/, adj. totemically, adv. /toh teuhm/, n. 1. a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group. 2. an object or natural phenomenon with which a family or sib considers …   Universalium

• totem — to•tem [[t]ˈtoʊ təm[/t]] n. 1) ant a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group 2) ant a representation of such an object or being serving as the distinctive mark of the clan or… …   From formal English to slang

• totem — /ˈtoʊtəm / (say tohtuhm) noun 1. an object or natural phenomenon, often an animal, assumed as the token or emblem of a clan, family, or related group. 2. (in certain tribal societies) an object or natural phenomenon with which a family or sib… …  

• totem — (n.) animal or natural object considered as the emblem of a family or clan, 1760, from Algonquian (probably Ojibwa) odoodeman his sibling kin, his group or family, hence, his family mark; also attested in French c.1600 in form aoutem among the… …   Etymology dictionary

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