English > cards: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | A game / game played with playing cards. |
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| Synonym | card game |
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| Category of | ante | place one's stake |
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| bid, call | make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands |
| bluff, bluff out | deceive / deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand |
| book | A collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game |
| check | decline to initiate betting |
| cover | Play a higher card than the one previously played |
| crossruff | trump alternately in two hands |
| deal | The act of distributing playing cards |
| deal | Distribute cards to the players in a game / game / game |
| deal | Give (a specific card) to a player |
| discard | (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit |
| exit | Lose the lead |
| fourhanded | (of card games) involving or requiring four players |
| lurch, skunk | defeat by a lurch |
| misdeal | Deal cards wrongly |
| overtrump | Play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick |
| pitch | Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit |
| raise | bet more than the previous player |
| reshuffle, reshuffling | shuffling again |
| reshuffle | shuffle again |
| revoke | fail to follow suit when able and required to do so |
| riffle | shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix |
| ruff, trumping | (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit |
| see | match or meet |
| shoe | (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt / dealt one at a time |
| trick | (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players |
| trump | (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand |
| trump, ruff | Play a trump |
| unblock | Play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding |
| underplay | Play a card lower than (a held high card) |
| Parts | call | A demand for a show of hands in a card game |
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| cut, cutting | The division of a deck of cards before dealing / dealing |
| deal | The act of distributing playing cards |
| discard | (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit |
| doubling, double | Raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 |
| lead | The playing of a card to start a trick in bridge |
| revoke, renege | The mistake of not following suit when able to do so |
| shuffle, shuffling, make | The act of mixing cards haphazardly |
| Narrower | Go Fish | A card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards |
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| Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops | A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck) |
| Napoleon, nap | A card game similar to whist |
| all fours, high-low-jack | card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game |
| baccarat, chemin de fer | A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker |
| beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbour, strip-Jack-naked | A card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards |
| blackjack, twenty-one, vingt-et-un | A gambling game using cards |
| bridge | Any of various card games based on whist for four players |
| casino, cassino | A card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand |
| cribbage, crib | A card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two |
| ecarte | A card game for 2 players |
| euchre, five hundred | A card game similar to ecarte |
| fantan, sevens, parliament | A card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens |
| faro | A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box |
| monte, four-card monte, three-card monte | A gambling card game of Spanish origin |
| old maid | A card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed |
| pinochle, pinocle, penuchle, bezique | A card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards) |
| piquet | A card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards |
| pisha paysha | (Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child |
| poker, poker game | Any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand |
| rouge et noir, trente-et-quarante | A card game in which two rows of cards are dealt and players can bet on the color / color of the cards or on which row will have a count nearer some number |
| rummy, rum | A card game based on collecting sets and sequences |
| solitaire, patience | A card game played by one person |
| whist, long whist, short whist | A card game for four players who form two partnerships |
| Broader | game | A contest with rules to determine a winner |
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| Spanish | juego de cartas |
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| Catalan | joc de cartes |
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