skat
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A card game for three players that uses 32 cards and involves bidding and taking tricks
- noun
- /skɑt/
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skat
- (n21) Interestingly, the two erotic competitors are referred to as "Skatbrder" ("skat brothers," 528); Johnson does not pursue this aspect of the sexual metaphors in the novel.
Examples
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He had learned to play skat from his grandfather, who taught him the rules and strategies.
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Let's skit-skat-skedoodle!
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"Skat" is played with three players (67), and the person who outbids the others is allowed to choose trumps.
Academic text (2009) -
Neither will he lie, cog, or foist restoratives extracted from leper skat and maggots on credulous patients.
Fiction book (1991) -
The friends gathered around the table to play skat, enjoying a lively competition.
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During family game night, we decided to play skat after dinner.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skat comes from German and was the name for the small pile of cards you 'set aside' in the game; a helpful way to remember it is to think of that two-card pile as the game's tiny 'stock', and the whole game later took its name from that important pile.