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cribbage

noun
/ˈkɹɪbɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *grebʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *kribjǭ✻ — “crib, wickerwork”
  3. inherited from *kribbjā✻
  4. inherited from crib
  5. inherited from crib
  6. suffixed as cribbage — “crib + -age”

Definitions

  1. A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players

    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.

    • 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. A variety of pocket billiards that, like the card game, awards points for pairs that…

    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. A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.

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Derived

cribbage board, cribbage-faced, crib board

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA