Definitions for shuffleboard

shuffleboard shuf·fle·board

Spelling: [shuhf-uh l-bawrd, -bohrd]
IPA: /ˈʃʌf əlˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd/

Shuffleboard is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 24 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 1390 anagrams from letters in shuffleboard (abdeffhlorsu).

Definitions for shuffleboard

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 of shuffleboard

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

Examples for shuffleboard

At such a time there is much playing of shuffleboard upon deck, and the matches do not always end harmoniously.

I must have my morning game of shuffleboard with the captain.

He walked away and was challenged by the Doctor to a game of shuffleboard.

No boy could have been more interested in winning the shuffleboard game than he.

It is a mixture of "hop-scotch" and shuffleboard played with a crutch.

In the sunniest corner of the promenade-deck a quartermaster had laid the numbered squares of a shuffleboard.

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

Played at shuffleboard which is done by sliding circular boards upon nine squares with figures making 15 each way.

On the hurricane deck, aft, a sailor was chalking a shuffleboard court.

We steered our course around a group of people who were disputing, in Wabash tones, over a game of shuffleboard.

Word Value for shuffleboard
Scrable

24

Words with friends

26

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