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shuffleboard


shuffleboard [shuhf-uh l-bawrd, -bohrd] ExamplesWord Origin noun

  1. 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.
  2. 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 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

    1. 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
    2. the marked area on which this game is played

    Word Origin and History for shuffleboard n.

    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.

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