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shuf⋅fle⋅board

[shuhf-uhl-bawrd, -bohrd]
–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:
1525–35; alter. of earlier shove board
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shuf·fle·board   (shŭf'əl-bôrd', -bōrd')   
n.  
  1. A game in which disks are slid with a pronged cue along a smooth level surface toward one of two usually triangular targets painted on the surface and divided into numbered scoring areas.

  2. A surface on which this game is played.


[Alteration of obsolete shove-board : shove + board.]
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