double dummy

American  

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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Etymology

Origin of double dummy

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

If you picked the declarer, you were wrong at double dummy.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2014

But the loss will be $160 million less than it would have been had it used the double dummy in 1993.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2013

The people in the glass-house lost count of time after the first, through playing some ghastly kind of double dummy bridge, and as they seemed cheerful Lady Turnour and her dummy were evidently winning.

From The Motor Maid by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

You have been playing double dummy long enough to get tired of it, I should think.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

We were so afraid to go to bed last night, the rooms were so close and sour, that we played whist, double dummy, till we couldn't bear each other any longer.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie