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Shove ha'penny — (or shove halfpenny, and also known in ancestral form as shoffe grote shove groat in Modern English, slype groat slip groat , and slide thrift)Cite web| url=http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Shove HaPenny.htm |title=Shove Ha penny: History and… … Wikipedia
shove-ha'penny — noun a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark • Syn: ↑shovel board, ↑shove halfpenny • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Grea … Useful english dictionary
shove-ha'penny — /shuv hay peuh nee, hayp nee/, n. Brit. a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit. Also, shove halfpenny /shuv hay peuh nee, hayp nee/. [1835 45] * * * … Universalium
Penny football — (UK, Coin football, Spoin or Sporting Coin or Table Football) is a coin game played upon a table top. The aim of the game is to score more goals with the pennies (Spucks) than your opponent. Penny rugby is a similar concept but based on rugby… … Wikipedia
shove-halfpenny — noun a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark • Syn: ↑shovel board, ↑shove ha penny • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Grea … Useful english dictionary
Half penny — Halfpenny, half penny, or ha penny may refer to:Coins: * Half penny (British decimal coin) * Halfpenny (British pre decimal coin) * Halfpenny (Irish pre decimal coin) * Halfpenny (Irish decimal coin) * Halfpenny (Australian) (pre decimal) * New… … Wikipedia
Pub games — are games which are or were played in pubs, bars, inns, and taverns, particularly traditional games played in English pubs. Most are indoor games, though some are played outdoors (e.g. in the pub garden).History of pub gamesFrom Roman taverns… … Wikipedia
Table shuffleboard — (also known as American shuffleboard or indoor shuffleboard or Shufflepuck) is a game in which players push metal and plastic weighted pucks (also called weights ) down a long and smooth wooden table into a scoring area at the opposite end of the … Wikipedia
Shuffleboard — Shuffleboarding redirects here. For the episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, see Shuffleboarding (SpongeBob SquarePants). A shuffleboard game being prepared on the deck of the MV Aurora Shuffleboard, more precisely deck shuffleboard, and also known… … Wikipedia
shuffleboard — /shuf euhl bawrd , bohrd /, n. 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… … Universalium
