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| auction bridge |
a version of bridge in which players bid for the right to specify which suit will be trump, any extra tricks won beyond the contract being scored toward a game. |
| discard |
in card games, to throw out (a card) from one's hand, or play (a card in a different suit from the one led, and not a trump). [1/5 definitions] |
| euchre |
in euchre, to prevent the trump declarer from gaining three tricks. [1/3 definitions] |
| no-trump |
of a hand or contract in bridge, to be played without specifying a trump suit. [2 definitions] |
| tarot |
(sometimes cap.) any of a set of twenty-two playing cards that bear allegorical pictures, used in fortunetelling and as the trump cards in a game played with seventy-eight cards. |
| trump |
in certain card games, to win (cards) by using a trump. [2/5 definitions] |
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