SHORT WHIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does short whist mean? 

• SHORT WHIST (noun)
  The noun SHORT WHIST has 1 sense:

1. a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six

  Familiarity information: SHORT WHIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORT WHIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

long whist; short whist; whist

Hypernyms ("short whist" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "short whist"):

dummy whist (a form of whist with three players; four hands are dealt with the hand opposite the dealer being face up)

Black Maria; hearts (a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades)

 Context examples 

I discovered afterwards that Miss Lavinia was an authority in affairs of the heart, by reason of there having anciently existed a certain Mr. Pidger, who played short whist, and was supposed to have been enamoured of her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)