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| ace |
a playing card or die face that bears only one spot. [1/7 definitions] |
| card table |
a small square table with folding legs, designed for playing card games. |
| club |
a black clover-shaped figure on a playing card, or a card bearing such a figure. [1/7 definitions] |
| deal1 |
the act of distributing playing cards in a card game. [1/15 definitions] |
| deck |
a pack of playing cards. [1/6 definitions] |
| deuce1 |
in games and sports, a two, esp. a playing card or face of a die with a value of two. [1/2 definitions] |
| diamond |
any shape resembling this, such as the red figure designating one suit in a deck of playing cards. [2/7 definitions] |
| draw |
to pick or be dealt (a playing card). [1/19 definitions] |
| face card |
any king, queen, or jack in a regular deck of playing cards. |
| flush4 |
a hand or set of playing cards all of the same suit, of special value in certain card games. |
| joker |
in a deck of playing cards, a card, usu. one of two such, that has no suit or denomination, is used as a wild card in certain games, and usu. bears a picture of a court jester. [1/4 definitions] |
| king |
a playing card with the image of a king. [1/4 definitions] |
| misdeal |
to deal (a deck of playing cards) incorrectly. [2 definitions] |
| pip1 |
a small spot, such as one of the dots on a die or domino, or one of the suit markings on a playing card. |
| queen |
a playing card having the picture of a queen. [1/5 definitions] |
| shuffle |
to rearrange playing cards in a random order by separating parts of the deck and interleaving them with the remainder. [3/8 definitions] |
| spade2 |
a black figure shaped like a pointed leaf with a short stem, used on playing cards. [1/4 definitions] |
| suit |
all the playing cards of a single kind in a deck of cards. In games such as poker or bridge, the suits are clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades. [1/10 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. |
| trey |
a playing card, die, domino, or the like with three pips. |
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