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psychic bid

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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.

Etymology

Origin of psychic bid

First recorded in 1930–35

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From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2011

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.

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