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Cribbage
//ˈkɹɪbɪd͡ʒ// noun
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Noun
- 1 A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic. countable, uncountable
"His solicitude for Sir Horace, his brother-in-law, was extreme, and he passed hours in the sick youth’s chamber, playing at cribbage, or dominos, or indulging the young baronet’s remarkable turn for cutting out trees, animals, or birds with tiny scissors on delicate paper."
- 2 a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two wordnet
- 3 A variety of pocket billiards that, like the card game, awards points for pairs that total 15. A player who pockets a ball of a particular number must then immediately pocket the companion ball that brings the number to 15. countable, uncountable
- 4 A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From crib + -age. Named from the "crib" consisting of certain cards laid aside by each player.
See also for "cribbage"
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