dominoes
do muh nohz
- n any of several games played with small rectangular blocks
- n United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)
- n a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume
- n a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes
- n a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots
- World speed records have fallen like dominoes at these Olympic Games (in swimming too, you may have heard), and experts think humans can get faster still.
- Old men, rocking back and forth on tiny stools, shuffled dominoes.
- Viewpoint: The dominoes didn't fall after Vietnam, argues Leslie Gelb, former head of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the same might be true in Iraq.