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SHOVE-HA'PENNY

Dictionary entry overview: What does shove-ha'penny mean?

• SHOVE-HA'PENNY (noun)
The noun SHOVE-HA'PENNY has 1 sense:

1. a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark

Familiarity information: SHOVE-HA'PENNY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SHOVE-HA'PENNY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shove-ha'penny; shove-halfpenny; shovel board

Hypernyms ("shove-ha'penny" is a kind of...):

board game (a game played on a specially designed board)

Domain region:

Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)

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