CHARADE
- a word represented by pantomime [n CHARADES]
- an acted riddle [n -S]
- (used with a sing. v.) 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
- word or phrase acted out in this game
- blatant pretense or deception, esp. something so full of pretense as to be a travesty