cribbage

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

From crib + -age. Named from the "crib" consisting of certain cards laid aside by each player.

A game at cribbage would be far better. — Middlemarch, George Eliot
Have you a mind for a game of cribbage to-night, Governor? — The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance., Thomas Peckett Prest
It was warm and comfortable, and he was playing cribbage with the Factor. — White Fang, Jack London

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