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parlor game

parlor game

noun
any game usually played indoors, especially in the living room or parlor, as a word game or a quiz, requiring little or no physical activity.

Origin:
1890–95
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Parlor game is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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parlor game

noun
a game suitable for playing in a parlor 
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