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Subbuteo

Subbuteo proper noun: any of a group of tabletop games that simulate team sports such as association football, cricket, and hockey, played with weighted figurines.

Proper noun

Subbuteo

  1. Any of a group of tabletop games that simulate team sports such as association football, cricket, and hockey, played with weighted figurines.
    • When I was a child I played Subbuteo, won / My table then I graduate to Studio One1991, “Five Man Army”, in Blue Lines, performed by Massive Attack

Origin of Subbuteo

Trade name, derived from the scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey, the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph (1916–1994) to call the game "Hobby".

Questions about Subbuteo

What does Subbuteo mean?
Subbuteo means any of a group of tabletop games that simulate team sports such as association football, cricket, and hockey, played with weighted figurines.
What part of speech is Subbuteo?
Subbuteo is a proper noun.

Words near Subbuteo in the dictionary

  1. subbundle
  2. subbundles
  3. subbureau
  4. subbureaus
  5. subbureaux
  6. Subbuteo
  7. subby
  8. subbyssoid
  9. subcabinet
  10. subcabinets
  11. subcache

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