Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

white elephant exchange

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables
white ele-phan-t ex-change
IPA
45
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A party game involving the exchange of amusing and impractical gifts. On each turn, the current player can either unwrap the next gift or "steal" an existing unwrapped gift from another player.

Inflected Forms

white elephant exchanges (plural) white elephant gift exchange (alternative)

Synonyms

Yankee swap

Questions

What does white elephant exchange mean?
A party game involving the exchange of amusing and impractical gifts. On each turn, the current player can either unwrap the next gift or "steal" an existing unwrapped gift from another player.

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