Level-coil or pitch-buttock is an old party game played at Christmas in which players have to forfeit their seat to another, often in a boisterous manner. The name is a corruption of its French name lève-cul, meaning to lift the buttocks.[1]

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  1. ^ John Brand (1849), "Level-coil", Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain, vol. 2, Bohn, p. 425