/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · In-and-In
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A game with four dice, once extremely common, and frequently alluded to. “In” is a throw of doubles, “in-and-in” a throw of double doubles, which sweeps the board.
“I have seen three persons sit down at twelve-penny in-and-in, and each draw 40s a-piece.”—Nicker Nicked.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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