cootie catcher
n.— «Yale’s introduction to the artform, however, did come from young Japanese-American classmates with the simple construction of four-pronged fortune-tellers, or as she called them, “cootie catchers.”» —“Her enterprise is folding” by Katie Mintz Ukiah Daily Journal (California) Mar. 27, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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