Cribbage

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. 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.
   countable, uncountable
3. A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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