shufflecap

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noun

A type of game where money is shaken inside a hat or a cap as a stake.

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Meanings

nounshufflecap (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableA 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
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shufflecap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shufflecap

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“shufflecap.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shufflecap. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shufflecap,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shufflecap.

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