shove-ha'penny

Also shove-half·pen·ny

[shuhv-hey-puh-nee, -heyp-nee]

noun

British.

1. a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shove-ha'penny¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

The shove-ha'penny table was a planed mahogany board with a number of parallel lines scored across it.

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Meantime the game of shove-ha'penny proceeded merrily, the Semi-drunk taking a great interest in it and tendering advice to both players impartially.

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Meantime the game of shove-ha'penny proceeded merrily, the majority of the male guests crowding round the board, applauding or censuring the players as occasion demanded.

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The only other occupant of the public bar--previous to the entrance of Crass and his mates--was a semi-drunken man, who appeared to be a house-painter, sitting on the form near the shove-ha'penny board.

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Easton had chummed up with a lot of the regular customers at the 'Cricketers', where he now spent most of his spare time, drinking beer, telling yarns or playing shove-ha'penny or hooks and rings.

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