The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Auction pitch \Auction pitch\ A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. --R. F. Foster. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
auction pitch n 1: an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump [syn: pitch, auction pitch]