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🚫 To cancel officially 🃏 A card rule break 🃏 To break card rules
revoke

revoke

9.9
The act of failing to play a card of the same suit in a card game
  • noun
  • /rɪˈvoʊk/
  • Jargon
translation icon : renegada
  • In the card game, his revoke cost him the match because he didn't follow suit when he could have.

Examples

  • The referee called a revoke when the player failed to play the correct card during his turn.

  • After realizing his mistake, he acknowledged the revoke for not following the rules of the game.

  • If you go on the Twitter website and navigate to Settings -> Apps and hit the "Revoke access" button, you are returning one of those tokens back to the app's pool.

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Antonyms

to follow suit
  • Informal
33 3.8

To do the same thing someone else did

Surface Forms

revoke singular
revokes plural

Etymology

Revoke (noun) in card play names the mistake of not following suit and comes from the same idea in re- 'back' and vocare 'to call'; think of a revoke as a 'taken-back' or cancelled play that breaks the rules. So, a revoke is the specific error or fault that can cost you points.