Glossary
C
Call: Equalize a bet, as in Poker; make a bid in Bridge; demand a certain card.
Call he turn: Name the order of the last three cards in a Faro game.
Canasta: In Canasta, seven or more cards of one value.
Capot: In Piquet, a bonus scored by player winning all the tricks.
Captain: Player having final say in certain partnerships.
Cards: A 3-point score for having most cards in Cassino.
Carte Blanche: A hand with no face cards, as in Piquet.
Case card: The only card of any specific value still to be dealt or played.
Cash: To lead a winning card; to turn in chips.
Cat: A freak poker hand. See Big Cat and little cat.
Catch: Draw a needed card in Poker; or find such a card in a widow.
Cat-hop: Term denoting that two of the last three cards in a Faro deal are the same denomination.
Check: To pass the bet to the next player in Poker, also a chip or counter used for scoring.
Chicane: Another term for carte blanche.
Chip: A token or counter used in scoring games.
Chip in: To put chips in the pot.
Cinch hand: An unbeatable hand in Poker.
Clear: Drive out adverse cards of a suit.
Close: To end the priviledge of drawing from the pack in certain games.
Closed poker: Any form of Poker in which no cards are disclosed until the showdown; particularly Draw Poker.
Clubs: A suit of playing cars.
Coffee housing: Poker hands when dealt face up. Also a form of Draw Poker.
Color: Red or black cards; also a special suit in Solo.
Column: Solitiare. Cards arranged in vertical order.
Combination: Cards with special value as a group.
Combine: Taking cards by adding their values in Cassino.
Come in: To enter the betting in Poker.
Command: Holding the best card in a game where tricks are take.
Commit: Another game for Comet.
Common marriage: King and queen of a non trump suit in Pinochle.
Complete hand: A Poker hand containing its full quota of cards.
Complete or completed trick: One to which everybody has played.
Concealed hand: One that goes out "all at once" in Canasta or Rummy.
Concede: Give up a hand without playing it.
Conditions: Certain card combinations in the game of Panguingue.
Condone: To ignore an infraction of the rules in any card game.
Consolation: The final hand in Five in One; also a term used in Ombre.
Contest: Any type of card game.
Contract: A player, team, or participant.
Contract: Number of tricks needed to make good a bid. Also, a short name for Contract Bridge.
Convection: A bid or play according to a system, especially in Bridge.
Copper: To be on a car to lose in Faro.
Couleur: A bet involving color in Trente et Quarante.
Count: Value given to specific cars when bidding or playing.
Counter: Card with a special point value; also a chip or token.
Count out: To Keep score of points or tricks when going for game.
Coup: A term for a bet or deal in certain games.
Court card: Any king, queen, or jack.
Cover: Play a higher card of a suit on a trick.
Crazy joker: The joker when a wild a card.
Crib: An extra hand formed form discards in Cribbage.
Cribbidge: Original name for Cribbage.
Cross: In Euchre, naming a new trump opposite in color to the original.
Crossruff: To trump alternating leads back and forth in Bridge or Whist.
Cue Bid: In Bridge, a bid showing he bidder’s control of a suit.
Cut: Placing the lower portion of the pack on the upper.
Cut throat: A game with more than two players in which each plays for himself.
D
Dead card: One that has been played, discarded, or made unavailable.
Dead Hand: One that is is out of play.
Dead man’s hand: In poker, two pair consisting of aces over nines.
Deadwood: Cards left over in a hand especially in Rummy; or discards in other games.
Deal: Distribution of cards, often as hands to players; also the play that follows.
Dealer: The person who deals the cards, whether a player or not.
Deal out: Exclude a player from the a deal.
Deck: A pack of cards.
Declare: To name a trump, make a meld or some other announcement.
Declare out: Announcement during play that a player or his team has sufficient score to win the hand or game.
Declarer: In Bridge, the player originally naming the suit (or no-trump) that his team finally decides to play.
Deece: A popular term for dix.
Defenders: In Bridge, the team opposite the declarer.
Defensive bid: A bid made to bluff opponents into bidding higher.
Demand bid: In Bridge, a bid calling for a response by bidder’s partner.
Denomination: Rank or value of a card.
Deuce: A two-spot.
Diamond jack: A bonus card (
9) in Hearts.
Discard: Dispose of unwanted cards, often in exchange for others; or, in trump games, to play from an odd suit.
Discard pile: In Canasta and Rummy, a face-up pile where player place unwanted cards, or from which they draw desired cards. A similar term applies in various Solitaires.
Distribution: Division of cards in a player’s hand, by suits.
Dix: A nine of trump in Pinochle, or seven of trump in Bezique.
Dog: A freak poker hand.
Dom: The three of trump in Dom Pedro.
Double: In Bridge, a bid that may add to rick values or penalizes; also, to play a hand at double value in various games.
Double bate: Penalty for losing bid if the hand is played out in Auction Pinochle.
Double pairs royal: In Cribbage, four cards of the same rank.
Double pinochle: A meld of
j j and
Q Q.
Double run: In Cribbage, a sequence with one card duplicate, as 10, 10, 9, 8; in Pinochle, a double sequence.
Double sequence: In Pinochle, the A, A, 10, 10, K, K, Q, Q, J, J.
Doubleton: In Whist or Bridge, a holding of only two cards of a suit.
Double up: To be twice as much as before.
Down the board: Pegging scores toward the far end of a Cribbage board.
Draw: To take cards from the pack; in Poker, to be dealt cards to replace some in the original hand.
Draw game: Any type of game in which neither player or team wins.
Dummy: In Bridge or Whist, the declarer’s partner, or his hand, which he lays face up so the declarer can play it. In other games, an extra hand, which is sometimes played.
Dummy Whist: Form of Whist with dealer’s partner serving as a dummy.
Duplicate Bridge or Whist: Games in which identical hands are dealt to different teams so the results can be compared in tournament play. Applicable to other games as well.
Dutch straight: A freak hand in Poker; same as skip straight.
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