shuffleboard
Americannoun
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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.
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the board or marked surface, as on a floor or deck, on which this game is played.
noun
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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
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the marked area on which this game is played
Etymology
Origin of shuffleboard
First recorded in 1525–35; alteration of earlier shove board
Example Sentences
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More recent has been the number of bars and pubs built around "competitive socialising", where dates or groups split time between the bar and games like crazy golf, shuffleboard or axe-throwing.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025
The 53-seat taproom with leather banquettes has shuffleboard and dart boards along with four flat screens tuned to local games.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2023
Royal Palms, a 21+ shuffleboard club in Gowanus, Brooklyn, is hosting its Flamingo Formal, a not-too-formal dance party with the option to play on one of its regulation-size courts.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022
Growing up, he had two uncles who owned joints in Hamilton where he’d hang out and play shuffleboard.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2022
She drew her two stacks of shuffleboard discs in closer to her.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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