a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
Often shortened to: crib
Word origin
C17: of uncertain origin
cribbage in American English
(ˈkrɪbˌɪdʒ)
noun
a card game for two players that can be played by three or four, in which the objectis to form various combinations that count for points: the score is traditionally kept by moving pegs on a small board (cribbage board)
Word origin
< crib + -age
Examples of 'cribbage' in a sentence
cribbage
Besides the occasional natter over a game of cribbage, they generally shot grouse together in the fall and poached salmon in the spring.
Terman, Douglas CORMORANT (2002)
In January and February, when the long winds blew from the north, she and Mason played cribbage on the old oak table.