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whisk and swabbers1699

Chiefly plural. Certain cards at the game of whist (see first quot. 1699), which entitled the holder to part of the stakes. whisk and swabbers: a…

twelfth whist1752

whist with only twelve cards in each hand. Obsolete.

Boston1800

A card game, allied to whist, named after the siege of Boston in the American War of Independence, to which the technical terms of the game refer.

short1825

In various uses of the plural. Short whist. (See whist, n.3)

long1832

Whist. In plural = long whist n. at compounds 4a. Obsolete.

dummy whist1843

see sense 2.

preference1852

Cards. Usually in form Preference. A game resembling whist, usually played by three people with a pack of 32 cards, in which the trump is determined…

solo whistc1875

solo whist, heart solo (see quots. 1898 at sense A. 5a 1907); also elliptical.

hearts1884

In plural (with singular agreement). Usually with capital initial. A card game of which the object is to avoid taking a trick containing a heart…

drive whist1885

progressive whist; spec. a form of this in which the losing players move from one group or table to another after each round.

cayenne whist1887

a variety of whist in which the dealer's side names the trumps and in which the suits have different values.

duplicate whist1891

a type of whist in which the hands are replayed by different persons.

duplicate1894

elliptical for duplicate bridge, whist (see sense A. 5 above). Also attributive.

straight whist1901

Originally U.S. straight poker, straight whist, etc.: the game in its unmodified form. straight four, straight five, straight six, straight flush

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