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An expert or hobbyist who is interested in atlatls.
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(video games) A device that measures the centre of balance of a player standing on it, used to provide motion input to sport-themed games etc.
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(obsolete) A pair of dice.
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(countable) The curve-ended stick used in this game.
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(obsolete) The lists in a tournament.
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To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
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A variant of chess played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two. Each player plays the other colour of pieces than their teammate, to whom they pass the pieces they capture from their opponent. The teammate can then choose to put one of these pieces on their board as an alternative way of making a move.
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A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.
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Alternative form of chessboard [(chess) The square board used in the game of chess, subdivided into eight rows of eight squares each, the squares in each row and column being of alternating colours.]
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Alternative form of chess boxer [Someone who participates in chess boxing.]
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A board with several tracks of holes, used for scorekeeping in games such as cribbage and dominoes.
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A long stick with a wedge at the end, used to gather up chips in a casino, or to move figurines representing units in military strategy.
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A person skilled in using a cue.
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(slang, especially board games) Firepower.
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A board used as a target for throwing darts.
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(gaming) A structure, containing deflecting objects called bafflers and having a tray at the bottom, into which dice are dropped to produce a fair roll in limited space.
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A game of jump rope with two ropes and frequently two jumpers.
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The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
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A device in which small objects tumble through a set of pegs, coming to rest in a pattern that approximates a normal distribution.
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Alternative form of gameboard [(board games) A portable surface marked for playing a game, and on which the counters or other pieces are placed and moved.]
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(board games) A portable surface marked for playing a game, and on which the counters or other pieces are placed and moved.
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In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
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A curve on a graph depicting a statistical or numerical trend with a long gradual rise followed by a steep increase over the short term.
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A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
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(chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
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A box used in plyometric exercise to facilitate jumps, stretches, etc.
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In the game of go, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
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(obsolete) An old game in which seats are changed by the players.
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(US) Any of several forms of a game in which a jack-knife is thrown so that it sticks into the ground close to the player's feet.
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(computing) The activity of using NAT.
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(rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
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(games) A children's game in which a parcel having many layers of packaging is passed from person to person around a ring while music plays, the person holding the parcel when the music is temporarily stopped being allowed to remove a single layer, and the person removing the innermost layer winning the prize contained within; in a variation of the game, there is a prize under each layer that is awarded to the person removing that layer.
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The playfield of a pinball table or similar game.
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Alternative form of point break [(surfing slang) The location where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline.]
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(sports) The section in a stadium or arena set aside for the press, or specifically for sportscasters.
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A group of news organizations pooling their resources in the collection of news. A video pool or pool feed is then distributed to members of the pool, who are free to edit it or use it as they see fit.
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A board with hooks attached, used in the Irish game of rings.
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(rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
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(obsolete) A game in which the player attempts to roll a ball into a certain place.
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(rock paper scissors) A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
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Alternative spelling of scratch card [a lottery ticket containing sections covered with an opaque waxy film which may be removed by scratching to reveal symbols that show whether or not a prize has been won]
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The game of shuffleboard.
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Alternative form of shuffleboard [(uncountable) A game that involves sliding a puck or coin towards a target.]
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(countable) The long, narrow board on which this game is played.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shuffleboard, table.: A score table, table of brackets, tournament table, etc. for shuffleboard
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(collectible card games) A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
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A toy consisting of a large inflated rubber ball upon which one bounces.
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(rock paper scissors) The Vulcan salute when used in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock, a handshape that beats rock and scissors and loses to lizard and paper.
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Alternative form of throwboard [(historical, uncountable) A game played on an 11×11 board in medieval Wales, a Welsh variant of tafl.]
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Alternative form of throwboard [(historical, uncountable) A game played on an 11×11 board in medieval Wales, a Welsh variant of tafl.]
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(countable) The board used in this game.
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Alternative form of tiebreak [(sports) A tiebreaker, a game or an extension to a game played to resolve a tied score.]
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A glass marble in children's games, slightly larger and more valuable than a oner.
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A circle in the middle of a shooting target's bullseye used to determine the winner in the event of a tie.
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