Definitions
1.nounA genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
2.nounA single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
3.nounA play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
4.nounA deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use."This whole charade is absurd."
5.nounA 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.