card game

noun

plural card games
: a game that uses a deck of cards

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The Gin Game is a comedy-drama in which two elderly residents of a retirement home – one male, one female – start an acquaintance over hands of the title card game. Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2025 In regular season matchups, the score is even at one win each, but Goff led the Lions to another victory over the Rams in a wild-card game during the 2024 playoffs. Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 12 Dec. 2025 In its Milan address, there are regular sessions of buraco, a rummy-like card game that’s popular in Italy. Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 5 Dec. 2025 Here too is Jim Buck, 75, a former teacher who played the area card game as a kid, playing on a soda case next to a pot-belly stove in this rural part of Tennessee. Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for card game

Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of card game was in 1611

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“Card game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/card%20game. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.

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