billiken

billiken (plural billikens)

1. Alternative form of Billiken
   • 1961, Dorothy Jean Ray, Artists of the Tundra and the Sea, page 123:

     Other experiments have been made with the billiken but none so successful as the milliken. One is the rarely seen "billiken in a barrel," a male billiken with movable genitals. Carvers occasionally have attempted to portray billikens in different positions or in action, for example, "Spike" Milligrock's billiken bowing in a Japanese-like posture, which had little success.

   • 1972, The Alaska Journal - Volumes 2-4, page 26:

     Happy Jack made his first ivory billiken in 1909, the commercial ones were at the height of their success — having taken the country by storm — but by 1912 they had plunged to oblivion.

   • 2013, Nancy Gates, The Alaska Almanac: Facts about Alaska, →ISBN:

     Florence Pretz of Kansas City patented the billiken in 1908.