Complete Definition of "cribbage"

English

Noun
en-noun|-

  1. context|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.
Quotations
1918, w:Katherine Mansfield|Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 114
: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.
1919, w:Ronald Firbank|Ronald Firbank, w:Valmouth|Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 31

Synonyms
crib

Derived terms
cribbage board
crib board

Translations
French: crib m

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