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high-card

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high-card (not comparable)

  1. (card games) Of or related to a high suit card.
    • 2013, F. Courtenay, The Losing Trick Count - A Book of Bridge Technique[1]:
      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).