shuffleboard
[shuhf-uh l-bawrd, -bohrd]
- 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.
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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
Time magazine later put Webb on its cover in front of a shuffleboard court.
Historical Examples
It is a mixture of "hop-scotch" and shuffleboard played with a crutch.
The Innocents AbroadMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
I must have my morning game of shuffleboard with the captain.
Mysterious Mr. SabinE. Phillips Oppenheim
On the hurricane deck, aft, a sailor was chalking a shuffleboard court.
Where the Blue BeginsChristopher Morley
No boy could have been more interested in winning the shuffleboard game than he.
The Vision SpendidWilliam MacLeod Raine
He walked away and was challenged by the Doctor to a game of shuffleboard.
A Millionaire of YesterdayE. Phillips Oppenheim
shuffleboard
- 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
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