contract bridge
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Definition
- Noun:
- A specific variant of the card game bridge: "contract bridge" refers to a particular form of the game where the declarer's score towards winning a game is based on fulfilling the exact number of tricks they bid during the auction.
Usage
- Noun:
- Contract bridge is the most popular form of bridge played in clubs and tournaments worldwide.
- Learning the strategies of contract bridge can take many years of practice.
Advanced Usage
- "to play a hand of contract bridge": to participate in one deal of the game.
- They sat down to play a hand of contract bridge after dinner.
Variants and Related Words
Bridge (n): the general family of trick-taking card games for four players, of which contract bridge is one type.
- Several forms of bridge, like auction bridge and contract bridge, have been popular over the years.
Declarer (n): in contract bridge, the player who, after the auction, attempts to make the contract.
- Bid (n/v): in contract bridge, a statement during the auction specifying a number of tricks and a trump suit (or no trump).
Synonyms
- Duplicate bridge: A common tournament form of contract bridge where the same deals are played by different pairs.
- Rubber bridge: A social form of contract bridge where points are scored towards winning a rubber (a series of games).
Related Phrases
To bid a contract: to make a bid specifying the number of tricks one's partnership commits to taking.
- She decided to bid a contract of three spades.
To make (or fulfill) a contract: to succeed in taking at least the number of tricks bid.
- He needed to win ten tricks to make his contract.
Idioms
- A bridge contract: This phrase specifically refers to the commitment made by the declaring side in contract bridge.
- Their bridge contract was for four hearts, which they successfully made.
Noun
- a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid