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词汇 shove-halfpenny
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Definition of shove-halfpenny in English:

shove-halfpenny

noun
mass noun
  • A game in which coins are struck so that they slide across a marked board on a table.

    打硬币游戏(将放在桌面上的硬币打入标线区)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In those days, pubs were places where people - mainly men - quaffed beer or other alcoholic drinks, socialized, and played games such as darts, dominoes, cribbage, and shove-halfpenny.
    • Other possibilities include sumo-wrestling competitions, kayak races, tennis tournaments, water-skiing, tug-of-war, carome (a Mauritian version of shove-halfpenny) and petanque competitions, and so on.
    • They weren't allowed to go into the bars, but they would go and play shove halfpenny.
    • In ever-increasing numbers, kids are being encouraged to box, golf, dance and climb, to play more cricket, football, tennis and, for all we know, shove-halfpenny, by a generation that has seen sport cannibalised into a grotesque commercial monster.
    • The oak table is 10m long and was used for the old game of shuffle-board, a Tudor version of shove-halfpenny.

Rhymes

halfpenny, twopenny-halfpenny

Definition of shove-halfpenny in US English:

shove-halfpenny

nounˌSHəvˈhāp(ə)nēˌʃəvˈheɪp(ə)ni
  • A game in which coins are struck so that they slide across a marked board on a table.

    打硬币游戏(将放在桌面上的硬币打入标线区)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Other possibilities include sumo-wrestling competitions, kayak races, tennis tournaments, water-skiing, tug-of-war, carome (a Mauritian version of shove-halfpenny) and petanque competitions, and so on.
    • In ever-increasing numbers, kids are being encouraged to box, golf, dance and climb, to play more cricket, football, tennis and, for all we know, shove-halfpenny, by a generation that has seen sport cannibalised into a grotesque commercial monster.
    • The oak table is 10m long and was used for the old game of shuffle-board, a Tudor version of shove-halfpenny.
    • They weren't allowed to go into the bars, but they would go and play shove halfpenny.
    • In those days, pubs were places where people - mainly men - quaffed beer or other alcoholic drinks, socialized, and played games such as darts, dominoes, cribbage, and shove-halfpenny.
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