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cards Definition

cards (kärds)

  1. a game or games played with a deck of cards, as bridge, rummy, poker, or pinochle
  2. the playing of such games; card playing

cards Synonyms

cards

n.

deck of cards, card game, game of cards; see deck 2, entertainment 2, game 1.

cards Quotes

I must complainthe cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

—Swift,Jonathan

: When you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

—Albee, Edward Franklin, III

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. And never, ever, nomatter whatelse you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

—Algren, Nelson

Still round and round the ghosts of Beauty glide, And haunt the places where their honour died. See how the world its veterans rewards! Ayouth of frolics, an old age of cards.

—Pope, Alexander

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

—Cervantes, Miguel de

My curse upon your whunstane hearts, Ye Enbrugh Gentry! The tythe o' what ye waste at cartes Wad stow'd his pantry!

—Burns, Robert