odd trick

American  

noun

1. Bridge. each trick exceeding six that is taken by the declarer.

2. Whist. the seventh trick taken by a partnership.

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Etymology

Origin of odd trick

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

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

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

"Now I was left stranded, spared by some odd trick of fate."

From Time Magazine Archive

Goldfein's comedy manages the odd trick of being broad and donnish at the same time.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you double, and they make it Two Hearts and win the odd trick, you are 50 points to the bad.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis