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The answer CHARADES has 61 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of charades in various dictionaries:
noun - player acts out a phrase for others to guess
noun - a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
noun - a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
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| In this game, a tug on the ear means "sounds like", and a touch on the nose: "you're right" |
| This is a game of guessing words or phrases acted out, sometimes syllable by syllable |
| The name of this popular party game can also mean "pretenses" or "travesties" |
| Parlor game for 2 groups of players taking turns as "actors" & "audience" |
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| an absurd pretence intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance. |
| player acts out a phrase for others to guess |
| a team game in which each member tries to communicate to others of his or her team a particular word or phrase while staying silent and using only actions to represent the sounds or meanings |
| An absurd pretence intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance. |
| Plural form of charade. |
| A game in which participants act out a word or phrase without talking for others to guess. |
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Charades (UK: , US: ) is a parlor or party word guessing game. Originally, the game was a dramatic form of literary charades: a single person would act out each syllable of a word or phrase in order, followed by the whole phrase together, while the rest of the group guessed. A variant was to have teams who acted scenes out together while the others guessed. Today, it is common to require the actors to mime their hints without using any spoken words, which requires some conventional gestures. Puns and visual puns were and remain common. * In the early 20th century, the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica offered these two prose charades as "perhaps as good as could be selected":* "My first, with the most rooted antipathy to a Frenchman, prides himself, whenever they meet, upon sticking close to his jacket; my second has many virtues, nor is its least that it gives its name to my first; my whole may I never catch!". * and * * "My first is company; my second shuns company; my third colle |