High-card

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or related to a high suit card. not-comparable

    "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)."

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"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)."

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