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Auction bridge   /ˈɑkʃən brɪdʒ/   Listen
Auction bridge

noun
1.
A variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge.  Synonym: auction.






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"Auction bridge" Quotes from Famous Books



... and had a weekly reception day. She was childless, but she disdained to carry a pet dog as compensation for barrenness. Her husband was a meagre shrimp of a stockbroker under his wife's control, who golfed on Sundays and played auction bridge at his club twice a week with cyclic regularity. He and his wife had little in common except the habit of living together, which had made them ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees

... such topics and such men to deal with them to be found to-day, or have all the great problems of humanity and its intellect been started, studied, and resolved? And are motor-cars, aeroplanes, dances, Dreadnoughts, millinery, rag-time reviews, auction bridge, the rise and fall of stocks, and the last extraordinary round of golf, all that is left for ...
— William of Germany • Stanley Shaw



Words linked to "Auction bridge" :   bridge, auction



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