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charades

noun

  1. word guessing game
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.

  1. A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.

    “[…] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]”

verb

Etymology: See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of charade