cribbage

[ krib-ij ]

noun

1. a card game for two or sometimes three or four players, a characteristic feature of which is the crib, and in which the object is to make counting combinations for points that are scored on a cribbage board.

cribbage

/ ˈkrɪbɪdʒ /

noun

1. a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents Often shortened tocrib

Word History and Origins

Origin of cribbage¹

First recorded in 1620–30; crib + -age

Word History and Origins

Origin of cribbage¹

C17: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

They included both William Davenant, a godson of Shakespeare and Sir John Suckling, the inventor of the card game cribbage.

From The Daily Beast

Even the cribbage game under the barber shop was suspended, and the cribbage game was an institution.

From Project Gutenberg

Cribbage played with cards and a board is said to be essentially an English game.

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After the children had gone to bed, she played cribbage with Mrs. Merlin while Kurt read the papers.

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Now, it must be confessed that cribbage was a game of which Mrs. Nuttall was profoundly ignorant.

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No horses stamping about, no stable; but pictures on the walls, and men playing cribbage or reading, and nobody in a hurry.

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