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Webster 1913 Edition
Clumps
Clumps
,Noun.
A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; – so called because the players take sides in two “clumps” or groups, the “clump” which guesses the word winning the game.
Webster 1828 Edition
Clumps
CLUMPS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
clumps
clumps
English
Verb
clumps
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of clump
Noun
clumps
- plural of clump
- A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups.
- E. F. Benson
- We'll have supper extremely soon […] But just one game of clumps first.
- John Betjeman
- There you looked and there you led me off into the game of clumps.
- E. F. Benson