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dartboard

American  
[dahrt-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈdɑrtˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

noun

  • dartboards
    plural
  1. the target used in the game of darts.


dartboard British  
/ ˈdɑːtˌbɔːd /

noun

  1. a circular piece of wood, cork, etc, used as the target in the game of darts. It is divided into numbered sectors with central inner and outer bull's-eyes

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of dartboard

First recorded in 1900–05; dart + board

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Greaves started playing with her older brother Taylor, who had a dartboard in his bedroom, and quickly showed her aptitude for the game.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2025

The crowd on a Saturday night is a mixture of friends, a smattering of solo drinkers and a young couple on a date, mulling whether to head to the jukebox or dartboard.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2024

She was rewarded with an education at Stuart Hall, an Episcopal school in Staunton, Va., where she was briefly expelled for using faculty photos as a dartboard.

From Washington Post Dec. 13, 2022

Did you turn president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto’s face into a dartboard?

From Seattle Times Jul. 3, 2022

The dartboard hangs precariously on a wall in the study, between tall bookcases and ornately framed oil paintings.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The family-run Nodor group, which Red Dragon Darts is part of, moved production of its darts and dartboards to Kenya after it acquired the Winmau brand about 20 years ago.

From BBC May 30, 2025

The company boasts that using biocular dart recognition technology with cameras and infrared lighting combined with state-of-the-art location algorithms, in theory, make Prodigy one of the most accurate smart dartboards ever created.

From Washington Times Dec. 8, 2021

We're talking piñatas filled with pink or blue candy, confetti-filled balloons, "pop the belly" dartboards and a whole new business opportunity for bakers built on pink and blue food coloring.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2020

That's a huge weapon for any player--but an especially dominant one for a player who turns 500-yard par 4s into dartboards for a flip wedge.

From Golf Digest Aug. 28, 2017

The families still own the bars, and the brothers, if they were still alive, would recognize much about them: shamrock posters, weathered dartboards, old men nursing morning beers.

From New York Times Sep. 16, 2011

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