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pinochle
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a card game played with a 48-card pack (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist [syn: pinocle , penuchle , bezique ]
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 ...
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.