double dummy


nounCards.
  1. a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.

Origin of double dummy

1
First recorded in 1900–05

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How to use double dummy in a sentence

  • At nine o'clock that night the colonel, in immaculate evening-dress, sat playing double-dummy bridge with his two companions.

    Jack O' Judgment | Edgar Wallace
  • I suggested a game of double-dummy bridge, but did not urge it when my companion asked me if it resembled euchre.

    The Man in Lower Ten | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • The lion, it will be seen, was self-sacrificing even to the extent of double dummy.

    A Modern Chronicle, Complete | Winston Churchill
  • From that he led her to double-dummy Bridge, and they were still at it when his brother returned.

    Old Mole | Gilbert Cannan
  • The lady would play anything, piquet, écarté, double dummy—and her daughter Elsie hated the sight of cards.