shuffleboard

[shuhf-uh l-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.

the board or marked surface, as on a floor or deck, on which this game is played.

Origin of shuffleboard

First recorded in 1525–35; alteration of earlier shove board

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Examples from the Web for shuffleboard

Contemporary Examples of shuffleboard

Time magazine later put Webb on its cover in front of a shuffleboard court.
The Governor Who Hates Her State
Bryan Curtis
July 19, 2010

Historical Examples of shuffleboard

It is a mixture of "hop-scotch" and shuffleboard played with a crutch.
The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
I must have my morning game of shuffleboard with the captain.
Mysterious Mr. Sabin
E. Phillips Oppenheim
On the hurricane deck, aft, a sailor was chalking a shuffleboard court.
Where the Blue Begins
Christopher Morley
No boy could have been more interested in winning the shuffleboard game than he.
The Vision Spendid
William MacLeod Raine
He walked away and was challenged by the Doctor to a game of shuffleboard.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
E. Phillips Oppenheim

British Dictionary definitions for shuffleboard

shuffleboard

noun

a game in which players push wooden or plastic discs with a long cue towards numbered scoring sections marked on a floor, esp a ship's deck

the marked area on which this game is played

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Word Origin and History for shuffleboard

1530s, shovillaborde "shovel board," an unexplained alteration of shove-board (1520s), from shove (v.) + board (n.1). Originally a tabletop game (c.1600), the large-scale version (1877) was invented for play on ocean liners.