shuffleboard

[ shuhf-uhl-bawrd, -bohrd ]

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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.

shuffleboard

/ ˈʃʌfəlˌbɔːd /

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

First recorded in 1525–35; alteration of earlier shove board

For the sake of simplicity, let's go with "team shuffleboard on ice."

Time magazine later put Webb on its cover in front of a shuffleboard court.

Mr. Watson went below, and Mr. Sabin played shuffleboard with his usual deadly skill.

We played ring-toss and shuffleboard together, and became of a friendship which lasts to this day.

Shuffleboard parties at one point and ring-toss parties at another were forming among the young people.

A game called Shuffleboard was introduced with trenchers about 1½ inch thick and 10 in.

You organize shuffleboard; you organize public worship; you want to organize musicales.

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