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A card game played as a practical joke, wherein the "dealer" throws the deck of cards in the air, and the other player must pick them up off the floor.
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(bridge) A coup where the declarer, holding AJx in a suit, ducks the left-hand opponent's lead of a king or queen.
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A card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards.
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Synonym of big two (a shedding type card game)
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(chiefly US, games) Alternative form of blind man's buff [(Britain, games) A game where one person is blindfolded and tries to catch the other players.]
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(card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning sextuple, or losing treble, the amount staked.
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(US, dated) The card game poker.
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(dominoes) In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used.
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(poker slang) Four of a kind.
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(computer chess) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
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(card games) In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
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(by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
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(card games) In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of higher value (e.g. 4♦ over 5♣).
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(card games) In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of lower value. (e.g., place 5♦ over 4♣)
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(transitive, intransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.
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A strategy, in pontoon or blackjack, in which a player keeps a mental tally of the cards played in order to calculate the probability of certain cards being dealt and therefore obtain an advantage.
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The performance of card flourishing; visually impressive cuts, displays, fans, patterns and sequences with playing cards.
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(card games, gambling) To memorize which cards have been played so far.
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A card, in any of various games, with instructions to be followed by a player whose token lands on a "chance" space, usually affording them some chance opportunity or inflicting upon them some chance misfortune.
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(card games) The act or contract for winning all, or almost all, of the possible tricks.
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(card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
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(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
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(especially collectible card games) A strategy aiming to win by playing a specific combination of cards (or similar), often in a single turn.
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(poker) To make a continuation bet.
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(poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.
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(gambling) To keep track of the cards that have been dealt and those that remain in the deck, in order to calculate the likelihood of certain hands in gambling games such as poker and blackjack.
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(bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
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(cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
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(bridge) A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand
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Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner.
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(card games) A game in which the dealer decides what variant to play and/or what stakes are to be bet.
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The construction of a deck of playing cards in certain games where players can make decisions about which cards to include.
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A list of the cards in a player's deck, in a collectible card game.
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(card games) An undertaking to take all thirteen tricks with no trump suit.
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(dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
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(card games) The card game cinch.
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(card games) To take the top card of a deck into hand.
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(card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
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(uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
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(card games) A traditional Russian card game in which players attempt to shed all of their cards.
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(whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
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(US, slang, gambling) An eight in the game of craps.
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(card games) (of a hand) Having higher, or superior cards.
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In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
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(card games) Synonym of faro
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(countable, card games) In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over.
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(card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
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(cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
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(intransitive, card games) To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
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(card games, by extension) Any situation in which a player earns a negative score.
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(uncountable) A simple card game.
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(countable, card games) In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.
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(bridge) The bid and winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand.
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(collectible card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
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Alternative form of gut-shot straight [(poker slang) A straight obtained by an inside straight draw; a poker hand which is four cards to a straight, where only one rank can complete a straight, e.g. 3-4-6-7 requiring a five.]
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Alternative form of gut-shot straight [(poker slang) A straight obtained by an inside straight draw; a poker hand which is four cards to a straight, where only one rank can complete a straight, e.g. 3-4-6-7 requiring a five.]
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(card games) In the game of skat, the playing of one's hand without using the skat.
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(of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
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(card games, uncountable) The game of cinch.
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(transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
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(card games) A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted.
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(card games) The (licit or illicit) obtaining of knowledge of cards that are supposed to be hidden from view.
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(euchre) A hand that is played with the bidder's cards exposed on the table
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(card games) In euchre: an undefeatable hand containing the five highest cards.
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(poker slang) A player who often bluffs.
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(intransitive, card games) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.
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(intransitive, transitive) To watch a card or board game.
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A particular gambling strategy used in roulette, involving working through a list of numbers that sum to a total.
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(card games) Not trumps.
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Any of various dice games based on bluffing and deception.
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(card games) The deck or draw pile.
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A card game, a variant of rummy that adds features such as buying and going out.
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A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole.
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(card games) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
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(euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
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(collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
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(card games, whist and others) A bid to lose every trick, or the majority of tricks, with no trumps.
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(Whist and other card games) a bid to lose every trick, with no trumps and the bidder's hand placed face-up on the table after the first trick
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(card games) In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
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(card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
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(collectible card games) An opportunity (sometimes penalized) for a player to reshuffle their cards and draw a new initial hand at the beginning of a game.
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A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
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(card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
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(chiefly attributive, card games) Any card that is not a trump.
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(card games) A bid in which the bidder asserts that he or she will not take any tricks.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A playing card that is almost imperceptibly longer than the others in the deck, used by cheats.
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(countable) The unmatchable card itself.
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(card games, slang) Either card of the rank of jack commonly depicted in the profiles of the jack of spades or jack of hearts.
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(card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
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In card tricks, one or more cards secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck and away from the performer.
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(card games) To play a higher trump card than the previous one in a trick
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(collectible card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.
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(card games, chiefly US) The last player to bet or play in turn.
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(card games) A method of cheating in card games, whereby a player surreptitiously changes his or her stake after the cards are dealt.
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a hand of three cards of the same value in three card brag
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The next bluff in sequence after a double bluff and a triple bluff
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(transitive) to surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game.
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(card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
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(card games) The act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards.
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(transitive, card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon.
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(countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
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(card games) The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.
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(chiefly US) Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called patience in the rest of the world.
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A card game in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be "spoiled".
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(blackjack, slang) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.
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(intransitive, games) To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
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(card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
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A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards.
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(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
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(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
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(card games) Without any tricks.
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A card trick in which the cards are shuffled with half face-up and half face-down, then laid out so that only the observer's chosen card is facing upward.
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(transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
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A playing card, of the trump suit that is held in reserve until needed to win a trick.
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(collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.
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(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
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(card games, slang) Either card of the rank of jack commonly depicted in the frontal view of the jack of diamonds or jack of clubs.
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(collectible card games) A card included in a deck twice.
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(intransitive, card games) In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.
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(card games) In rummy, the top card of the discard pile.
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A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
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(collectible card games) A deck with a strategy of casting a single, powerful card.
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(card games) The discard pile; the area where the cards from the stock go when they are brought into play.
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(sports, card games) Alternative form of wild card [(card games) A card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.]
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(card games) In a patience or solitaire game, to return a card from a foundation to the tableau.
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