different between cribbage vs lowball

English

Etymology

Named from the "crib" consisting of certain cards laid aside by each player.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??b?d?/

Noun

cribbage (countable and uncountable, plural cribbages)

1. (card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 114

     How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl played cribbage.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 31

     "No one remembers cribbage now," […]

2. A variety of pocket billiards that, like the card game, awards points for pairs that total 15. A player who pockets a ball of a particular number must then immediately pocket the companion ball that brings the number to 15.
3. A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.

Synonyms

• crib

Derived terms

• cribbage board
• crib board

Translations

English

Etymology

American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball.

Noun

lowball (plural lowballs)

1. The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop.
2. (poker) A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.)
3. A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser.
4. An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass.

See also

• cribbage
• poker

Verb

lowball (third-person singular simple present lowballs, present participle lowballing, simple past and past participle lowballed)

1. (transitive) to give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent.
2. (transitive) To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low.
3. (transitive) To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly.

Antonyms

• highball

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