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/ˈɑkʃən brɪdʒ/ Listen

Auction bridge

noun

A variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge.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

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... 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

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Words linked to "Auction bridge" : bridge, auction