CRIBBAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cribbage mean? 

• CRIBBAGE (noun)
  The noun CRIBBAGE has 1 sense:

1. a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

  Familiarity information: CRIBBAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIBBAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

crib; cribbage

Hypernyms ("cribbage" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Meronyms (parts of "cribbage"):

crib (the cards discarded by players at cribbage)

 Context examples 

One night, not long after the return, Scott and Matt sat at a game of cribbage preliminary to going to bed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The cards were brought, and Fanny played at cribbage with her aunt till bedtime; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the reckonings of the game—“And that makes thirty-one; four in hand and eight in crib.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Then Traddles and I played a game or two at cribbage; and Dora singing to the guitar the while, it seemed to me as if our courtship and marriage were a tender dream of mine, and the night when I first listened to her voice were not yet over.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was warm and comfortable, and he was playing cribbage with the Factor.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

An' while I'm wishin', I wisht the trip was over an' done with, an' you an' me a-sittin' by the fire in Fort McGurry just about now an' playing cribbage—that's what I wisht.

(White Fang, by Jack London)