playboard

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playboard

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From play + board.

noun playboards

A ledge or shelf used in puppetry for balancing props. Professional puppeteers hang their puppets upside down from a ring on the playboard shelf inside the puppet theater and slip the puppets on like gloves. […] When the puppet is removed, it is hung back in its place on the playboard.
The playfield of a pinball table or similar game. Nothing moves on these playboards except the ball itself which rolls down the inclined playboard by gravitational pull.

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@misc{playboard_2026,
  title = {playboard},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/playboard},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}