auction bridge
Americannoun
-
a variety of bridge in which odd tricks won in excess of the number named in the contract are scored toward game.
noun
-
a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards game
Etymology
Origin of auction bridge
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
You will be entertainingly led from whist to bridge whist to auction bridge to contract bridge.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2014
He was a 15-year-old freshman, and Al Roth and Harold Harkavy were upperclassmen with whom Stoney played hearts, pinochle and auction bridge.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2012
After introducing to his astonished flock golf, jazz and auction bridge, after falling in love with the inevitable sweet and simple maiden, he reforms.
From Time Magazine Archive
An expert who, like Whitehead, has had a hand in the movement responsible for replacing auction bridge with contract bridge as the standard social card-game, did not attend Whitehead's convention.
From Time Magazine Archive
And are motor-cars, aeroplanes, dances, Dreadnoughts, millinery, rag-time reviews, auction bridge, the rise and fall of stocks, and the last extraordinary round of golf, all that is left for the present generation to discuss?
From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.