This website has a reasonable if long-winded explanation. Basically it's a party game, in which an orange is studded with cloves (whole cloves, embedded in the rind pointy side down). In its most basic incarnation, the orange gets passed around from person to person -- one person offers it to another, who (if they desire to) takes it, removes the clove with their mouth and the person who handed them the orange kisses them (and usually in the process retrieves the clove). Then that person, the second one, offers the orange to a different person and the whole thing happens again, with a different clove from the orange, until all the cloves are gone.
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