Meaning of slipthrift | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A spendthrift.
   obsolete
2. 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.
   obsolete

Examples

“Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies.”

“What to dooe there? To bowle, or to plaie at dise, or cardes, penipricke, or slipthrift.”

“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.”

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