playboard
English
Etymology
play + board
Noun
playboard (plural playboards)
- The playfield of a pinball table or similar game.
- 1969, Rufus King, Gambling and organized crime
- Nothing moves on these playboards except the ball itself which rolls down the inclined playboard by gravitational pull.
- 1983, Heinz R. Pagels, The cosmic code: quantum physics as the language of nature
- Playing pinball requires total concentration, the right combination of skill and chance, a mastery of indeterminacy as the ball moves across the playboard and interacts with bumpers and cushions.
- 1969, Rufus King, Gambling and organized crime