Cribbage

Quick meaning: Cribbage is a noun meaning A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.

Meaning

A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.

More Meanings

1. (card games) 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.
2. 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.

Example Sentences

"No one remembers cribbage now," […]

How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl played cribbage.

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.

Word Forms

• cribbages

Synonyms for cribbage

Depending on context, synonyms include crib.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crib, lowball, craps, cram, crapgame, crapshoot.

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