psychic bid

American  

noun

Bridge.

1. a bid designed to mislead one's opponents that is not based on the strength of one's hand or of the suit named but rather on one's feeling that not bidding would be more costly.

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Etymology

Origin of psychic bid

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

For example, how do you program to allow for a psychic bid?

From New York Times

Over the drowned hulk of No. 117, another lightship, No. 106, dropped anchor in clear water, began sending beacon signals to all ships at sea: � � � � � � � � � � � � When the field took the turn in the Youthful Stakes, run at Jamaica fortnight ago, Psychic Bid, of Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, went wide.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bit slipped through Psychic Bid's angry mouth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Referees decided that, though Lenz magazine articles inveighed against "psychic" bids, and though this match is officially to follow the Lenz and Culbertson systems, a "psychic" bid by Lenz-Partner Jacoby was permissible.

From Time Magazine Archive