cribbage
/krib-ij/US // ˈkrɪb ɪdʒ //UK // (ˈkrɪbɪdʒ) //
克利贝奇,克里贝奇,克利贝基,克利贝吉
Definitions
n.名词 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.
Examples
They included both William Davenant, a godson of Shakespeare and Sir John Suckling, the inventor of the card game cribbage.
Even the cribbage game under the barber shop was suspended, and the cribbage game was an institution.
Cribbage played with cards and a board is said to be essentially an English game.
After the children had gone to bed, she played cribbage with Mrs. Merlin while Kurt read the papers.
Now, it must be confessed that cribbage was a game of which Mrs. Nuttall was profoundly ignorant.
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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