DARTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does darts mean? 

• DARTS (noun)
  The noun DARTS has 1 sense:

1. a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard

  Familiarity information: DARTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("darts" is a kind of...):

board game (a game played on a specially designed board)

 Context examples 

One great fellow ran past me roaring with pain, with a dozen darts sticking from his chest and ribs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At his signal, Freya darts across the lab room floor and sniffs a collection of small open mason jars.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

They shower down arrows, darts and great stones.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I apprehended the arrow might be poisoned, and paddling out of the reach of their darts (being a calm day), I made a shift to suck the wound, and dress it as well as I could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

With their going it seemed as if some evil presence had departed, for the dogs frisked about and barked merrily as they made sudden darts at their prostrate foes, and turned them over and over and tossed them in the air with vicious shakes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She brushed her nose with her paws, trying to dislodge the fiery darts, thrust it into the snow, and rubbed it against twigs and branches, and all the time leaping about, ahead, sidewise, up and down, in a frenzy of pain and fright.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He told me that what she had said of being here, and there, and everywhere, was true enough; for she made little darts into the provinces, and seemed to pick up customers everywhere, and to know everybody.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But now, as the two monsters hounded us to the very foot of the stairs, a drift of darts came whistling from every chink in the cliff above them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whereupon I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds; but again, when I felt the smart of their arrows upon my face and hands, which were all in blisters, and many of the darts still sticking in them, and observing likewise that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know that they might do with me what they pleased.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)