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shufflecap

shufflecap noun: a type of game where money is shaken inside a hat or a cap as a stake.

Noun

shufflecap (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A type of game where money is shaken inside a hat or a cap as a stake.
    • A local clothier was a victim of the parson’s skill at the pub game of shufflecap, ‘his usuall game’, which cost him a tongue pie worth ten groats.1982, Collinson, Patrick, The Religion of Protestants, Clarendon Press, page 107

Questions about shufflecap

What does shufflecap mean?
Shufflecap means a type of game where money is shaken inside a hat or a cap as a stake.
What part of speech is shufflecap?
Shufflecap is a noun.

Words near shufflecap in the dictionary

  1. shuffleboard table
  2. shuffleboard tables
  3. shuffleboarder
  4. shuffleboarders
  5. shuffleboards
  6. shufflecap
  7. shuffled
  8. shuffled off
  9. shuffled off this mortal coil
  10. shuffled the cards
  11. shuffled the chairs on the deck of the Titanic

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