Unabridged Shuffleboard Dictionary

District: A designation on Florida tournament schedules, part of the tournament number, indicating a tournament is a District-only event, awarding Move-Up Points to Amateurs. Such a tournament appears only on the schedule of the District where the tournament takes place. (Example: "D01" is the first District-only event of the season that awards Move-Up Points.)

DOUBLES (def. 2). An abbreviation used on tournament schedules.

Doubles Men/Ladies: An abbreviation used on tournament schedules to designate a doubles event that has two separate divisions, one for men and one for women.

1. A disc that is out of play after a shot because it has left the board, touched any part of an alley or portion of the edge of the court other than the playing surface, touched any person or object outside of the board, or stopped in front of and not touching the deadline at the receiving end of the court. Also, a live disc may be declared dead as part of certain tournament rules violations or penalties. A dead disc is immediately removed from the board before play continues. 2. A live disc that is in a position that makes it mostly useless as a target disc for a carom or combination shot. 3. A live disc that normally is not considered useful as a target disc to be kitchened due to its location on the board, distance from the kitchen, or angle away from the kitchen. 4. LINER.

The area of the court between the two deadlines. Syn: NO MAN'S LAND.

Each of the two horizontal painted lines on the court, one three feet in front of each of the two scoring diagrams. A cue disc that stops on the shooter's side of the furthest deadline, not touching the deadline, after being shot is a dead disc (even if it has struck another disc). Syn: HOG LINE, LAGLINE.

COURT SHUFFLEBOARD. || From the early word usage for the game's original form, when it was played on the deck of a military ship or ocean liner.

1. (of a scoring disc) Close to but not touching the line directly behind. (Example: "A deep 7 may get bumped into the kitchen.") 2. (of a guard) Behind its usual or ideal position. (Example: "A deep St. Pete blocks a smaller area of the board.") Syn: LOW.

The manner and execution of the forward motions a shot, consisting of Steps, Swing and Follow-Through.

SCORING DIAGRAM.

A concrete court that has been made extremely smooth by the use of a diamond grinding machine and polished with diamond pads.

The disk used in shuffleboard for shooting and scoring. A set consists of eight discs, four each of two different colors, usually yellow and black, white and black, or red and black. New discs are manufactured, usually of molded plastic, to be 6 inches in diameter, 9/16 to 1 inch in thickness, and 15 ounces in weight. Syn: BISCUIT, BLOCK, PUCK, WEIGHT.

A section of a state, as determined by the state's official shuffleboard association, to which member clubs belong. (Arizona has 5; California has 13, many inactive; Florida has 7.)

(in Florida) A player is conferred the status of District Amateur upon playing in their first FSA tournament.

SEPARATION TRIANGLE.

SEPARATION TRIANGLE.

1. A separate event for a class of players in a tournament. (Example: "Only women are eligible to play in the Ladies Division." 2. A separate class of players. (Example: "The winners in each of the two divisions, Amateur and Expert, will receive award pins.")

Strike a target disc in a manner that makes both the cue disc and another disc of the same color (often a liner) into scoring discs.

(in California) Striking the cue disc with the head of the cue twice during a shot. Use of double clutching in a tournament can be subject to penalty.

Two guards, either side by side or one in front of the other, covering a scoring disc.

Having two discs in the 10-Off at once.

1. A game wherein a team of two players competes against a team of two other players. 2. A tournament format wherein teams of two players compete against other teams of two players. Syn: DBLS.

A disc on the board (usually a liner) that is in a favorable position to be doubled.

In the direction of the drift.

A random selection prior to the start of a tournament of the line number assignments, the court assignments for first matches, and/or the pairings of two players for each doubles team.

1. A doubles game wherein a draw selects the pairings of two players for each doubles team. 2. A doubles tournament format wherein a draw selects the pairings of two players for each doubles team before the start of the tournament.

The tournament official that prepares and conducts the draw.

Sprinkle beads on the surface of the entire playing area of a court.

Beads sprinkled on the surface of a court.

1. Deviation in the movement of a disc off a straight line as it travels down the court due to variation, usually imperceptible to the eye, in the playing surface of the court from a flat horizontal plane. 2. The characteristic of a court that has playing surface variations causing such deviations. (Example: "The court we played on has a lot of drift.")

A handheld representation, on paper or other writing material, of a board, its scoring diagram, and positions for discs, upon which a player makes notations about the characteristics of the discs and court. Used during a game, mainly by advanced players for tournament play, as a memory aid for the aim of the shot to account for drifts and other anomalies of the court and/or in the selection of a cue disc for a shot according to the disc's play characteristics (such as speed). Syn: ROAD MAP.

A shot where the cue disc passes to the side of the intended target disc without touching and continues well beyond, usually through the kitchen and off the board.

PIGEON (def. 1).