auction bridge
- noun
- Archaic
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puente de subasta
- The club president reminisced about playing auction bridge before contract bridge became popular.
Examples
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She learned the rules of auction bridge from her grandmother, who played regularly decades ago.
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At the turn of the century, auction bridge was the preferred pastime among card enthusiasts.
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I love auction bridge!
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Have you ever tried auction bridge?
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At the turn of the century, auction bridge was the preferred pastime among card enthusiasts.
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The club president reminisced about playing auction bridge before contract bridge became popular.
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She learned the rules of auction bridge from her grandmother, who played regularly decades ago.
Synonyms
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An old form of the card game bridge where players bid to decide how many tricks to win
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'auction bridge' is compositionally built from 'auction' + 'bridge' and straightforwardly denotes a type of bridge that involves auctions or auction-like scoring; a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it is a variant of the card game with auction-based rules. This follows a common noun–noun compounding pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so the overall meaning is derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Auction bridge gets its name from the way players bid: the auction part shows that everyone would bid out loud to win the right to decide the hand, and the word bridge names the card game. That's why auction bridge means the older form of the game, before 'contract bridge' became the usual version.