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crossruffs

crossruffs is the plural of crossruff.

crossruffs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crossruff.

Meaning of crossruff

Noun

crossruff (plural crossruffs)

  1. A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand
    • When West discarded a club, South could have won with dummy's ace and played on crossruff lines.2009 January 8, Phillip Alder, “Part 1 of an Experiment, Ending in a Trump Coup”, Bridge, in New York Times

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Questions about crossruffs

What is crossruffs the plural of?
Crossruffs is the plural of crossruff.

Words near crossruffs in the dictionary

  1. crossrow
  2. crossrows
  3. crossruff
  4. crossruffed
  5. crossruffing
  6. crossruffs
  7. crosssection
  8. crosssectional
  9. crosssections
  10. crossstaff
  11. crossstaffs

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