: a card game for four players in two partnerships that is played with a pack of 52 cards and that scores one point for each trick in excess of six
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Adjective
Celebrate with free bowling (first come, first serve), DJ Always, DJ Slikk, NBA playoffs on TV, spades and bid whist tournament. Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 12 Jan. 2022
Noun
Compounding the problem, cheating was for decades a taboo subject in the genteel, tiny community of elite bridge — a game that evolved from 19th-century whist and was modified by a Vanderbilt on a yacht in 1925. Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021 An enthusiastic player of bid whist — a card game often compared to spades — Clark joined in tournaments, near and far. Donna St. George, Washington Post, 1 July 2020 And in the middle of his paddy, seated around embers that are boiling a kettle, Lalith and friends are playing a furious card game that resembles whist.The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020 Having left her 1-year-old daughter, Millicent, in Washington with her parents, Mabel solaced herself with the bustle of dinners, carriage rides, musicales and games of whist mainly organized by the town’s eminent couple, Susan and Austin Dickinson. Brenda Wineapple, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018 Activities include a bid whist card tournament, games on the beach, free health testing and voter registration, plus a killer lineup of live music including DJ TJaye with rappers Cakes Da Killa and Cor. Adam Lukach, RedEye Chicago, 24 Aug. 2017 In 1902, 12 years after first playing whist with Isabel, Twain hired her. Marie Lavendier, courant.com, 29 Apr. 2018 Mr. Henry enjoyed attending jazz concerts and playing the card games bid whist and pinochle at the Willingboro Senior Center with his friend Mary Churchill. Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 24 Aug. 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English; imitative
Noun
alteration of earlier whisk, probably from whisk entry 2; from whisking up the tricks