Pinochle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A game of cards for two to four persons, played with a special deck of 48 cards, with points being scored by taking tricks and forming certain combinations.
  • n. The combination of the queen of spades and jack of diamonds in this game.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A card game, similar to bezique.
  • n. A meld of jack of diamonds and queen of spades in said card game.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See penuchle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
    • Equivalent
    pinocle   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    card game    cards   
    Variant
    penuchle   
    Same Context
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