Subbuteo

Meaning

Proper Noun

• Any of a group of tabletop games that simulate team sports such as association football, cricket, and hockey, played with weighted figurines.

Origin

• Trade name, derived from the scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey, the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph (1916–1994) to call the game "Hobby".