cribbage

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
19
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈkɹɪbɪd͡ʒ/

Definition of cribbage

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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.
    “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.”
    “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.”
    “"No one remembers cribbage now," […]”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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.
    “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.”
    “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.”
    “"No one remembers cribbage now," […]”
  2. (countable, uncountable)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.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.

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Etymology

From crib + -age. Named from the "crib" consisting of certain cards laid aside by each player.

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