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consequences

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɒn.sɪ.kwən.sɪz//
  • United States//ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwən.sɪz//
  • United States//ˈkɑn.sɪˌkwɛn.sɪz//
  • Canada//ˈkɒn.sɪ.kwən.sɪz//

An old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each player in turn writing a part of the story, not knowing what the others have written.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of consequenceplural of consequence

noun

  1. 1

    An old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each player in turn writing a part of the story, not knowing what the others have written.

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).