SHOVE-HA'PENNY

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 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

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; 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; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)