cribbage

Plural: cribbages

Noun

• A card game played with a pegboard and a standard deck of cards.
• a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
• 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.
• 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.
• A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.

Examples

• Playing CRIBBAGE requires a different kind of word strategy than Scrabble.

Synonyms

crib