How to pronounce shuffleboard
American English pronunciation
SHUF-ul-bord
- IPA
- /ˈʃʌfəlˌbɔɹd/
- Syllables
- SHUF · ul · bord (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What shuffleboard means
A game of sliding disks into scoring zones on a court
In a sentence: On the ship's deck, we played shuffleboard and slid our disks into the top zone.
Where it comes from: It comes from an older name, shovel-board, which was a change from shove-board: players shove pieces down a long, smooth board.
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