单词 | cue bid |
释义 | cue bid in British Englishnoun contract bridge a bid in a suit made to show an ace or a void in that suit cue bid in American Englishnoun Bridge a bid in a suit showing control of the suit, as having an assured winner or a void Word origin [1930–35]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acoustic phonetics, boondoggle, cloverleaf, technical foul, uncertainty principlecue-bid in American English (ˈkjuːˈbɪd) Word forms: verb -bid, -bidden or -bid, -bidding transitive verb 1. to show control of (a suit) by a cue bid intransitive verb 2. to make a cue bid Word origin [1960–65]This word is first recorded in the period 1960–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: disco, go-go, parvovirus, power play, proxemicsExamples of 'cue bid' in a sentence |
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