toodlum buck

Noun

 * 1)  The game of crown and anchor.
 * 2) * 1933, Slang To-Day and Yesterday, Eric Partridge, London: Routledge & Kegal Paul, page 294:
 * toodle-em-buck, the game of crown and anchor
 * 1) * 1941 (July 11), “Whitcombes Sale” advertisement, The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, page 1:
 * TOODLUM BUCKS: A Crown and Anchor game, 10/6 for 7/6.
 * 1)  A betting game involving a spinner marked with horses’ names.
 * 2) * 1939 (August 1), Hansard of the 33rd Parliament of Victoria, Volume 207, page 638:
 * I regard these games as more or less of the same class as the Toodlum-buck I played when a youngster.
 * 1) * 1960, “The “Toodlembuck”—Australian children’s gambling device and game”, Dorothy Howard, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 73, No. 287 (Jan.–Mar. 1960), pages 53–54:
 * But children of the early 1900's had a gambling custom—extinct now, as far as I could learn—claiming the picturesque name of “Toodlembuck” and employing a unique handmade gambling wheel and “cherry bobs” (cherry stones cherries are in season at Melbourne Cup time) for money. 
 * 1)  The piece of wood (cat) that is struck in tipcat.
 * 2)  A carnival game in which marbles were thrown at holes or at buttons on the ends of sticks.