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cardplaying

cardplaying noun: the playing of card games.

Noun

cardplaying (uncountable)

  1. The playing of card games.
    • It doesn’t seem accidental that the phrase “luck of the draw” can apply equally to cardplaying or gunslinging, or that the denouement of “Lucky You” — a showdown between Mr. Bana’s character and his nemesis, L. C., played by Robert Duvall — recalls not just the 52-card catharsis of “The Cincinnati...2007 April 29, John Anderson, “Love and Loneliness on the Las Vegas Strip”, in New York Times

Forms of cardplaying

alternative formcard playing

Origin of cardplaying

From card + playing.

Questions about cardplaying

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

Words near cardplaying in the dictionary

  1. cardphone
  2. cardphones
  3. cardplay
  4. cardplayer
  5. cardplayers
  6. cardplaying
  7. cardpunch
  8. cardpunches
  9. cardridge
  10. Cardrona
  11. cardroom

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