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Jack of diamonds and queen of spades
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pinochle
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context card games English) A card game, similar to bezique. 2 (context card games English) A meld of jack of diamonds and queen of spades in said card game.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But no one, least of all Yves, expected that pinochle had much of a future on Zhanjiang Bay. ▪ It was an improvement on pinochle .
Usage examples of pinochle.
It seems from what Schultz says that after Kunz returns to Germany, he misses his gin rummy no little as the game is practically unknown in his country where cardplayers generally favor pinochle or maybe klabriasch.
Duke was a panda bear, all he wanted was to sleep in the same bed with me and play pinochle.
Seeing myself in a cell next to Fud, the Meeks boys playing pinochle sideways through the bars, I popped off another shot, the hammer clicking on an empty chamber.