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high-card

high-card adjective: of or related to a high suit card.

Adjective

high-card (not comparable)

  1. Of or related to a high suit card.
    • Now that the fallacy of basing bids on high-card values only has been realized, experts are modifying their systems of valuation more and more, so as to count actual tricks and not merely high-card tricks (Quick Tricks or Honour Tricks).2013, F. Courtenay, The Losing Trick Count - A Book of Bridge Technique

Questions about high-card

What does high-card mean?
High-card means of or related to a high suit card.
What part of speech is high-card?
High-card is an adjective.

Words near high-card in the dictionary

  1. high-blown
  2. high-boiling
  3. high-born
  4. high-budget
  5. high-calorie
  6. high-card
  7. high-center
  8. high-centered
  9. high-centering
  10. high-centers
  11. high-centre

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