charades

The English word “charades” has 1 meaning listed here.

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.

Etymology

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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