five hundred
noun1
A note worth 500 units of some currency.
2
Card games, Games A trick-taking card game with elements of euchre and bridge.
- Gallipoli von Kessler asked him if he had thought of playing five hundred, saying that though some people said that five hundred was perhaps a brainier game than crib, he didn’t necessarily agree, but it might be more Rooster’s fancy. It was really bridge without the bad company.2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 194: