Meaning

2 senses
  1. (obsolete)A spendthrift.

  2. (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.

Origin

From slip + thrift.

From slip + thrift.

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Forms

plural: slipthrifts
Singularslipthrift
Pluralslipthrifts

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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