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shuffleboard

shuffleboard

11 5.4
A game where players use long sticks to push heavy discs along a smooth board to score points
  • noun
  • /ˈʃʌfəlˌbɔrd/
  • US
translation icon : shuffleboard
  • We enjoyed a friendly match of shuffleboard at the community center last weekend.

There are games like shuffleboard and pool And what's the little tennis game?

Examples

  • Playing shuffleboard honed your hand-eye coordination.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • They were supposed to go boating, play shuffleboard, or just sit around in The Hawk's Nest.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • We can buddy up for the shuffleboard tournament.

    Primal (2019)

  • Laughing off the entire experience, we then passed more time at the shuffleboard table.

    Blog text (33)

  • We played some shuffleboard, then decided to get a burger.

    Blog text (33)

  • So now they're retired... playing shuffleboard with the other senior citizens.

    Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

  • Everyone knows that shuffleboard begins on the veranda at 5 a.m.

    Blog text (3)

  • Milton made a plan for the Sundowner: after one draft for sociability, he would play the shuffleboard game.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The two women pulled the curly-haired man to his feet and walked him over to the shuffleboard table, and Guthrie watched them play for a while.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Early photographs of the two of them show a young, happy, if slightly baffled-looking couple on the beach in Miami or playing shuffleboard at resorts like Kutchers and Grossinger's.

    Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

shovelboard
vsshuffleboard
  • US
9.9

A game where players push wooden disks with long sticks onto marked spots on a smooth board

pushes heavier weighted disks rather than plain wooden ones
shovel board
vsshuffleboard
  • Archaic
8.9

A game where players slide coins or discs across a long smooth board to reach a target for points

uses sticks to push disks instead of sliding them by hand

Surface Forms

shuffleboard singular
shuffleboards plural

Morphology

shuffleboard = shuffle + board (transparent) = shuffle + board

Clearly a compound of 'shuffle' + 'board': a board used for shuffling/sliding discs, so learners who know the components can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Shuffleboard comes from the two simple words shuffle and board. Shuffle once meant 'slide or drag', like shuffling your feet, and board means 'flat surface', so the name fits the game: players slide heavy discs along a board to score.