Dictionary entry details
• CARD GAME (noun)
Meaning:
A game played with playing cards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
card game; cards
Hypernyms ("card game" is a kind of...):
game (a contest with rules to determine a winner)
Meronyms (parts of "card game"):
discard ((cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or to failing to follow suit)
renege; revoke (the mistake of not following suit when able to do so)
lead (the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge)
deal (the act of distributing playing cards)
double; doubling (raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2)
cut; cutting (the division of a deck of cards before dealing)
make; shuffle; shuffling (the act of mixing cards haphazardly)
call (a demand for a show of hands in a card game)
Domain member category:
underplay (play a card lower than (a held high card))
check (decline to initiate betting)
ante (place one's stake)
pitch (lead (a card) and establish the trump suit)
cover (play a higher card than the one previously played)
raise (bet more than the previous player)
see (match or meet)
reshuffle (shuffle again)
riffle (shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix)
deal (distribute to the players in a game)
deal (give (a specific card) to a player)
misdeal (deal cards wrongly)
bid; call (make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands)
lurch; skunk (defeat by a lurch)
exit (lose the lead)
discard ((cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or to failing to follow suit)
reshuffle; reshuffling (shuffling again)
deal (the act of distributing playing cards)
ruff; trumping ((card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit)
trick ((card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner)
shoe ((card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time)
book (a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game)
revoke (fail to follow suit when able and required to do so)
unblock (play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding)
bluff; bluff out (deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand)
ruff; trump (play a trump)
overtrump (play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick)
crossruff (trump alternately in two hands)
fourhanded ((of card games) involving or requiring four players)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "card game"):
all fours; high-low-jack (card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game)
boodle; Chicago; Michigan; Newmarket; stops (a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card)
nap; Napoleon (a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes)
old maid (a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or 'old maid'))
bezique; penuchle; pinochle; pinocle (a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist)
piquet (a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards)
pisha paysha ((Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner)
poker; poker game (any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand)
rouge et noir; trente-et-quarante (a card game in which two rows of cards are dealt and players can bet on the color of the cards or on which row will have a count nearer some number)
rum; rummy (a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards)
patience; solitaire (a card game played by one person)
four-card monte; monte; three-card monte (a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of the will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time)
Go Fish (a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards)
baccarat; chemin de fer (a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine)
beggar-my-neighbor; beggar-my-neighbour; strip-Jack-naked (a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards)
blackjack; twenty-one; vingt-et-un (a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the bank up to but not exceeding 21)
bridge (any of various card games based on whist for four players)
casino; cassino (a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand)
crib; cribbage (a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two)
ecarte (a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high)
euchre; five hundred (a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand)
fantan; parliament; sevens (a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards)
faro (a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box)
long whist; short whist; whist (a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six)
