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cribbage

[ UK /kɹˈɪbɪd‍ʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɪbɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

How To Use cribbage In A Sentence

  • We would fall asleep listening to my grandparents sitting at the table playing cards or cribbage.
  • We took a walk up the street and Capa just stopped and joined a game of cribbage that some fishermen were playing, and next there would be a girl, and he joked 'Where's your boyfriend?' Rare Robert Capa print in auction of news photography treasures
  • However, I fear they are retreating, and minority indulgences such as cribbage are going the same way as dominoes, shove ha'penny, bar billiards, and the very jolly, unpretentious boozers in which they used to be played day and night. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Weekly programs include exercise classes, mall walking, noon meals, choir and orchestra practices, harmonica band practice, bridge, whist, cribbage and table games.
  • They stay up late, talking and playing cribbage.
  • And for Axelson, that means a lot more scrabble, cribbage, cards in the van, more soccer and football at gas stops, and, thankfully, not much Dora the Explorer or diaper changing.
  • Turned out Sage’s parents were historians, he said, so they first taught him the precursor to cribbage, a game called noddy. Elixir
  • “You tell the jigger-dubber!” answered the cribbage player. The Surgeon's Daughter
  • Winners' plaques, bowling woods, cribbage boards and a railway engine name plate are among the items to go under the hammer at Kidson Trigg auctioneers, in Sevenhampton, Highworth, tomorrow.
  • Just as a solitary sailor will beguile the tedium of empty days at sea by a kind of cribbage, in which the left hand plays against the right, so I laid odds for and against myself on such trifles as these, and even went so far as to keep an account of my successes and my failures. The Quest of the Simple Life
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