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nullo

UK/ˈnʌ.ləʊ/US/ˈnʌ.loʊ/

nullo noun: a bid in which the bidder asserts that he or she will not take any tricks.

Noun

nullo (plural nullos)

  1. A bid in which the bidder asserts that he or she will not take any tricks.
    • If the adversaries of a nullo revoke, the declarer can give them three of his tricks, or take 100 in honours as penalty. If he revokes, they take 100 penalty as usual. SUGGESTIONS FOR BIDDING. The dealer should never bid a nullo originally ...1914, Robert Frederick Foster, Encyclopedia of Games: Including All the Indoor Games Played at the Present Day, [etc.]., page 26
    • It takes a better nullo hand to raise nullos than to bid them. Dummy shows. A player who has once been called off from nullos by his partner should never return to them.1916, Florence Irwin, The Complete Auction Player, page 375
  2. (neologism) One who has their genitals (and sometimes nipples) surgically removed (nullification) as a form of body modification.
    • This public presentation of the mutilation of the penis is not obviously very different from the forms of disassembly of the penis engaged in by male body modifiers – particularly nullos and transgenders – on the Body Modification Ezine website.2014, Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts, page 70

Forms of nullo

pluralnullos

Origin of nullo

From null + -o.

Phrases with nullo

Words that rhyme with nullo

Questions about nullo

What does nullo mean?
Nullo means a bid in which the bidder asserts that he or she will not take any tricks.
What part of speech is nullo?
Nullo is a noun.
How do you pronounce nullo?
Nullo is pronounced /ˈnʌ.ləʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of nullo?
The plural of nullo is nullos.

Words near nullo in the dictionary

  1. nullizygote
  2. nullizygotes
  3. nullizygous
  4. nullizygozity
  5. nullness
  6. nullo
  7. Nullo Mountain
  8. nullomer
  9. nullomers
  10. nulloplasty
  11. nullos

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