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Game played with a 48-card deck
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pinochle
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pinochle or binocle (sometimes pinocle , or penuchle ) is a trick-taking card game typically for two to four players and played with a 48-card deck. It is derived from the card game bezique ; players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penuchle \Pe"nu*chle\, Pinocle \Pin"o*cle\ Pinochle \Pin"o*chle\, n. A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.
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.
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.