shuffleboard: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	slide-groat • shovel-penny • shovegroat • shoveboard • shovelboard

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Two older men playing shuffleboard outdoors; one man pushes a disc with a cue stick while the other stands and watches, both on a green shuffleboard court near a lake.

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