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Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy

An advanced, consumerist form of tetherball played by the children in Aldous Huxley's novel, Brave New World.
You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to the rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

The Director and his students stood for a short time watching a game of Centrifugal
Bumble-puppy. Twenty children were grouped in a circle round a chrome steel tower.
A ball thrown up so as to land on the platform at the top of the tower rolled down
into the interior, fell on a rapidly revolving disk, was hurled through one or other of
the numerous apertures pierced in the cylindrical casing, and had to be caught.

Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy

An erotic game played by the children in A. Huxley's novel, Brave New World.
Mary and Lou played Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy in the garden.

Bubbleguppy 

tweaker A young woman who smokes Methamphetamine from an oil burner style pipe.
She's a bubbleguppy, no matter what I do she won't put the pipe down.
Bubbleguppy by Dr. Benway, MD November 24, 2019

Bumblepoppy 

Refers to a person who looses focus often and takes a long time when playing a game thus delaying the game for everyone
“Wait, who’s turn is it?”
Brynn, it’s yours, you bumblepoppy”
Bumblepoppy by Jjwekk December 11, 2021