double dummy

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noun Cards.

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.

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Origin of double dummy

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby double dummy

double down, double dresser, double dribble, double drift, double drummer, double dummy, double-dumped, Double Dutch, double-duty, double-dyed, double eagle

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.
The Ivory Gate, a new edition|Walter Besant