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high card

noun, adj — 3 senses

high card

nounalso spelled high-card
1

Card games, Poker A hand which has no pairs and is not a straight or a flush, and is the lowest possible winning hand.

2

Bridge, Games An honor card, specifically, a jack, queen, king or ace, that is crucial in determining the strength of a hand.

high-card

adj
1

Card games, Games Of or related to a high suit card.

  • 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).2013, F. Courtenay, The Losing Trick Count - A Book of Bridge Technique:

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