charades
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noun
- A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
- A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
- A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
- A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.“This whole charade is absurd.”
noun
- 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.
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