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injection
noun A way of temporarily absenting oneself from being caught in chasings. Accompanied with a hand sign of injecting something intermuscularly. Generally used when one wanted to stop playing for a while to do something else - like talk to someone outside of the game. To rejoin the game one merely said "Uninjection!" and made the opposite hand motion whereupon you were fair game by whomever was "in".
Contributor's comments: We had this in Bendigo, but mostly in the cruel games involving catching germs from an unattractive class member. The game would involve passing on the person's germs by touching the next victim and saying "XXX's germs, no returns". The only protection against this was by saying "jection!" before being touched.
Contributor's comments: [Tasmania informant] We said Barley in these instances. We also said Hiacki which came from the game Hiack-1-2-3. In this game when you got past the person who was "it" you had to say "Hiacki-1-2-3 home" when you touched the home base.