Frisbee

Meaning

Name

A trademarked brand name of disc-shaped gliding toy.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A frisbee, a disk-shaped gliding toy of any brand.
3. (uncountable) frisbee: the sport involving Frisbees.

Verb

To throw something in the manner of a Frisbee.

Translations

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɹɪzbi/

Etymology

1957, brand name Frisbee was trademarked in 1959 by Fred Morrison, later acquired by Wham-O. From an alteration of frisbie, applied to the disk game by U.S. college students who tossed pie plates from Mrs. Frisbie's Pies, Frisbie Bakery, Bridgeport Ct., since the 1930s. From the English family name Frisby attested 1226, from the toponym attested 1086 in Frisby on the Wreak, Leicestershire, from Old Danish Frisby (“Frisian village”).