- a game in which the players are typically divided into two teams, members of which take turns at acting out in pantomime a word, phrase, title, etc., which the members of their own team must guess.
- a word or phrase acted out in this game.
- a blatant pretense or deception, especially something so full of pretense as to be a travesty.
- an episode or act in the game of charades
- an absurd act; travesty
