odd trick
Americannoun
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Bridge. each trick exceeding six that is taken by the declarer.
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Whist. the seventh trick taken by a partnership.
Etymology
Origin of odd trick
First recorded in 1700–10
Example Sentences
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Goldfein's comedy manages the odd trick of being broad and donnish at the same time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unfortunately, this tourist-brochure fantasy is only the beginning of Patriot Games, a novel that performs the odd trick of growing exponentially less interesting with the turning of each page.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Now I was left stranded, spared by some odd trick of fate."
From Time Magazine Archive
Idaho's Republican Senator Henry C. Dworshak last week performed an odd trick: he passed himself on a merry-go-round.
From Time Magazine Archive
To come back: Barrington's passion for law was an intense thirst for a certain species of excitement; a verdict was to him the odd trick.
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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