n. a gambling game played with dice, the winning throws being 3-3, 5-5, 6-6, and 6-5; the losing throws being 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 4-4; the other combinations being neutral.
- 1950  Wedged between the brothels, barbotte games and blind pigs were a handful of licensed night clubs.
- 1953  (1958)  . . . the counterfeit coin could be used to gamble at red dog, poker, roulette, barbotte, and for just plain shooting craps.
- 1959  The law is not too effective in dealing with this canker . . . because the bucketeers often pull up stakes and move, like a travelling barbotte game.