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; [syn: whist, long whist, short whist]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
long whist
n 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 [syn: whist,
long whist, short whist]