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

Radicle 9 mm. long, card affixed in front: after 9 h. deflected in the plane of the bean about 40o from the vertical, away from the card and in the direction of Sachs' curvature.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Make the pass at the long card, which will then be at the bottom.

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