crossruff
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editcrossruff (plural crossruffs)
- (bridge) A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand
- 2009 January 8, Phillip Alder, “Part 1 of an Experiment, Ending in a Trump Coup”, Bridge, in New York Times[1]:
- When West discarded a club, South could have won with dummy's ace and played on crossruff lines.
Related terms
editSee also
edit- Ruff (cards) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
editcrossruff (third-person singular simple present crossruffs, present participle crossruffing, simple past and past participle crossruffed)
- (bridge) To execute a play of this kind.