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Butts Up

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How to Play - Butts Up - An American Classic!

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How to Play Butts Up

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Butts Up

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Butts Up (A.K.A. "A-Ball", "Asses Up", "Assies' Rehab & Tea", "Balliver Shagnasty's Revenge", "Balls Deep", "Ballsies", "Beartrap", "Blackjack" is a North American elementary school children's playground game originating in the 1950s or earlier. It is slightly similar to the game Screen Ball. Butts Up or Booties Up began in the 1940s or 1950s as a penalty phase of various city street games. Butts Up is played with a ball on a paved surface against a wall, with a variable number of participants—usually more than three and often likely to exceed ten. Butts Up tends to be played during recess, before or after school.. Popular in New England is another frequent variation of wallball that usually differs a lot from the more widely known 'Butts Up'.
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