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charades

cha·ra·des

US/ʃɜrˈeɪdz/ uncommon

noun

1.

player acts out a phrase for others to guess

Origin

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.

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