bridge player
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- noun
- /brɪdʒ ˈpleɪər/
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jugador de bridge
- He began as a child actor on Broadway, then, after serving in WWII, got into TV and played Tom Corbett until he was 35, at which point he retired from acting and became a professional bridge player and teacher.
It feels like the seriousness of bridge players mixed with the fantasy of Pokémon.
- It feels like the seriousness of bridge players mixed with the fantasy of Pokémon.
- He's a national champion bridge player and but in the third great arena of life love, Len is an abysmal failure.
- can't play brush maker living. Not in Canada. You can do that in the US. Professional bridge players gets paid a lot of money to play with
Examples
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They had once been sociable people, bridge players and party givers, but now they hardly went out.
Fiction book (1999) -
Jan Huebner had been an English major at Darton Hall, a solid B student, a dorm counselor, a confidante of pretty girls, a Saturday-night bridge player, a chain-smoker, a clown.
Fiction book (2001) -
There are thousands of of truly great bridge players that are way better than we are.
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We were serious bridge players, dead serious.
Fiction book (1990) -
He is also a keen bridge player.
Academic text (1993) -
The noise from the Florida room grew louder as the bridge players rose like a flock of startled birds so their tables could be reset for lunch.
Fiction book (2001) -
His fellow bridge players and other new acquaintances saw John as a genial old fellow with an endless supply of funny stories, but that amiable facade was just a trick to keep people from getting too close.
Fiction book (2002) -
But one of the judges we got (in a federal appeals case, one gets three) is a champion bridge player and one of the sharpest analytic minds I've ever encountered on the bench.
Fiction book (1991) -
At the tournament, the best bridge players from around the country gathered to compete.
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She became a skilled bridge player after years of practice with her friends.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'bridge' (the card game) combined with 'player' (someone who plays) yields 'a person who plays bridge.' This agentive noun-noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The term bridge player comes from the card game bridge. One popular story says the game is like a small 'bridge' connecting two partners across the table, so a bridge player is simply someone who plays that game.