battledore and shuttlecock

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   an ancient racket game

   Synonymsbattledore

   Broaderbadminton

Questions about battledore and shuttlecock

What does battledore and shuttlecock mean?

battledore and shuttlecock means "an ancient racket game".

What is another word for battledore and shuttlecock?

Close synonyms include battledore. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is battledore and shuttlecock a common word?

battledore and shuttlecock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.