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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dartboard
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He and Emily had left the bicycles in the room with the dartboard.
▪ Puzzled looking blokes strain their necks for the dartboard, wide-eyed girls search in vain for the stage.
▪ The men standing round the dartboard didn't seem to care.
▪ There was a dartboard above the phone with a picture of Thatcher taped over it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dartboard

dartboard \dartboard\, dart board \dart board\n. a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts. It may have any of several patterns on it, such as concentric circles, or a central circle with rays.

Wiktionary
dartboard

n. A board used as a target for throwing darts.

WordNet
dartboard

n. a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts [syn: dart board]

Usage examples of "dartboard".

The young man paused for a moment before the Living Dartboards, then continued walking down the seemingly endless rows of sheds, games, and exhibits.

She looked slightly less harmless with both cutlasses and one of the horsebows on her back, especially if you knew that the inn's dartboards now had deep holes in the bullseyes from all the practising.

Posters on the wall — Mao, Lenin, Sex Pistols, a Playboy centrefold with a crudely drawn moustache and glasses and even white teeth blacked out, Castro, Margaret Thatcher used as a dartboard, a Two-Tone band.

How many times, how many, many times had he chalked for his father, at the chalkboards of the dartboards of the pubs of London, where he was raised.

At the corner of each square was a two-way switch and a little neon lamp: the whole affair was plugged into the light socket (thus plunging the dartboard into darkness) and Eric Rodgers was looking round for a new victim.

He had once thrown a rep from a potato crisp company to the other side of the zebra crossing simply on the grounds that the rep's suit clashed with the dartboard.

The dartboard was the center of a noisy game, the flighted hand arrows thudding hard into the sectored cork.

The warranters wanted to see their families and live normal lives, the former TCA leaders were in exile somewhere and being hunted down for trial, local dartboards had Sasaquon's face for a target, and in between the chaotic events were soaring moments of real hope and reason.