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cardplay

cardplay noun: the playing of card games.

Noun

cardplay (uncountable)

  1. The playing of card games.
    • Wearied of cardplay the Chinese sprawled across the seats like drowsy primates, resting their noggins indecorously in the aisle, and gracing the floorboards with their hair as, upside down, they tracked the movements of various kiddies […]2006, Trevor Carolan, Pillow Book of Doctor Jazz, page 61
    • The trouble is, in this account of a gambler seeking shelter from the storm in the numbness of cardplay, the prose is similarly, symptomatically numb.2011, Richard Gray, A History of American Literature

Origin of cardplay

From card + play.

Questions about cardplay

What does cardplay mean?
Cardplay means the playing of card games.
What part of speech is cardplay?
Cardplay is a noun.

Words near cardplay in the dictionary

  1. Cardozas
  2. Cardozo
  3. Cardozos
  4. cardphone
  5. cardphones
  6. cardplay
  7. cardplayer
  8. cardplayers
  9. cardplaying
  10. cardpunch
  11. cardpunches

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