Slipthrift
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Slipthrift is a noun meaning (obsolete) A spendthrift.
Meaning
(obsolete) A spendthrift.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A gambling game that was invented in the early 1500s, similar to shuffleboard but played with coins on a board, and which was more commonly called shovegroat.
Example Sentences
What to dooe there? To bowle, or to plaie at dise, or cardes, penipricke, or slipthrift.
Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies.
Shovegroat or slidegroat, slideboard, slidethrift, or slipthrift, are sports occasionally mentioned by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and, acccording to Strutt, were probably analogous to the modern pastime called Justice Jervis, which is confined to common pot-houses, and only practised by such as frequent tap-rooms.
Word Forms
- slipthrifts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dingthrift, wastethrift, slipstring, wastegood, scattergood, thriftster.
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