whist

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They are often held when family and friends gather, get animated and talk smack amid a spades or bid whist card game where jokers and deuces are always wild.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2024

Love, Peace & Spades is a safe and inclusive space for Black people to enjoy one another and play Uno, bid whist, Tunk, dominoes and spades.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

The mother-of-two told the court the Skoda Fabia was "swerving" whist driving on the A46.

From BBC • May 17, 2023

When the book opens the punctilious Phileas Fogg lives by the clock, his schedule never varying, each day passed almost entirely at London’s Reform Club, where he reads the newspapers, dines and plays whist.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

‘No, no. My mother said it is a rising eye. But I was to keep whist and mum about it—unless even God has turned away His face. And Cilia ... you promised.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes