Shove-halfpenny


[shuhv-hey-puh-nee, -heyp-nee] /ˌʃʌvˈheɪ pə ni, -ˈheɪp ni/
noun, British.
1.
a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
shove-halfpenny
noun
1.
(Brit) a game in which players try to propel old halfpennies or polished discs with the hand into lined sections of a wooden or slate board

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