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double dummy

noun

, Cards.
  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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of double dummy1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

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

I suggested a game of double-dummy bridge, but did not urge it when my companion asked me if it resembled euchre.

The lion, it will be seen, was self-sacrificing even to the extent of double dummy.

From that he led her to double-dummy Bridge, and they were still at it when his brother returned.

The lady would play anything, piquet, écarté, double dummy—and her daughter Elsie hated the sight of cards.

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