long card

American  

noun

Chiefly Bridge.

1. a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.

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Etymology

Origin of long card

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

In that game, a player scratches two winning numbers at the top of an 8-inch long card, Hamlin said.

From Reuters • Jan. 6, 2015

South returned a heart, ducked to North's queen, and North cleared the heart suit leaving herself with the long card.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2011

There are fewer than 1,000 players seated at the long card tables lined up diagonally across the concrete floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seem to shuffle the cards, and then cutting them at the first long card, poise those you have cut off in your left hand, and say, "There should be here fifteen cards."

From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown

Cut them again at the second long card, and say, "There are here only eleven cards."

From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown