shuffleboard [shuhf-uh l-bawrd, -bohrd] ExamplesWord Origin 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 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.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
I must have my morning game of shuffleboard with the captain.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
On the hurricane deck, aft, a sailor was chalking a shuffleboard court.
Christopher Morley
No boy could have been more interested in winning the shuffleboard game than he.
William MacLeod Raine
He walked away and was challenged by the Doctor to a game of shuffleboard.
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
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.