- a game in which large disks are pushed with a cue along a smooth lane toward numbered areas of a diagram
- the marked surface on which it is played
Origin of shuffleboard
from earlier shovel board: so named because of the shape of the cuesshuffleboard
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shuffleboard
noun
- 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.
- A surface on which this game is played.
Origin of shuffleboard
Alteration of obsolete shove-board shove board
shuffleboard
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