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Answer for the clue "US card game ", 8 letters:
pinochle
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Word definitions for pinochle in dictionaries
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.
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 ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pinocle , 1864, Peaknuckle , of uncertain origin, perhaps from Swiss dialect Binokel (German), binocle (French), from French binocle "pince-nez" (17c.), from Medieval Latin binoculus "binoculars" (see binocular ). Taken as a synonym for bésigue "bezique," ...
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.