Crib vs. Cribbage — What's the Difference?

A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.

Cribbage, or crib, is a card game, traditionally for two players, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. It can be adapted for three or four players.Cribbage has several distinctive features: the cribbage board used for score-keeping, the eponymous crib, box, or kitty (in parts of Canada)—a separate hand counting for the dealer—two distinct scoring stages (the play and the show) and a unique scoring system including points for groups of cards that total fifteen.

A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.

A card game for from two to four players in which the score is kept by inserting small pegs into holes arranged in rows on a small board.

A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.

(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.

A stall for cattle.

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.

A small crude cottage or room.

A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.

(Slang) One's home.

A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

A framework to support or strengthen a mine or shaft.

A card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib

A wicker basket.

A petty theft.

Plagiarism.

See pony.

See cheat sheet.

(Games) A set of cards made up from discards by each player in cribbage, used by the dealer.

To confine or cramp.

To furnish with a crib.

To plagiarize (an idea or answer, for example).

To steal.

To plagiarize; cheat.

(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

(British) A bed for a child older than a baby.

(nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel

A wicker basket.

A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.

The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.

A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.

A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle

(obsolete) A job, a position; (British) an appointment.

A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.

One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.

A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.

A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.

(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.

(cribbage) The card game cribbage.

(cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.

(cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.

A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.

(Canada) A small raft made of timber.

The stomach.

A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.

(slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

(transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.

To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

(intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

(Indian English) To complain, to grumble

To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

A stall for oxen or other cattle.

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; - used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

A small raft of timber.

A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.

A miner's luncheon.

The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.

To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; - said of a horse.

Baby bed with high sides

A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

A card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib

Use a crib, as in an exam

Take unauthorized (intellectual material)

Line with beams or planks;