Shove-ha'penny (Noun)
Meaning
A game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- We set up a makeshift board for a game of shove-ha'penny on the floor during our family reunion.
- As kids, my friends and I loved playing shove-ha'penny on the floor during long train rides.
- She decided to include shove-ha'penny as part of her university thesis on old British games.
- Their new game cafe included old-school activities such as bagatelle, and shove-ha'penny, bringing in an entirely different type of gamer.
- Years after World War II the entertainment unit within Royal Navy Submarine fleet arranged Shove Ha'penny in nearly every leisure session as fun is to those out long days months deployed deep on.