spades
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spades
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spades pl (plural only)
- (card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
- (card games) A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.
- 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 57:
- Griff and his cronies played spades at the back of the classroom.
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spade — see spade
suit of playing cards
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card game
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Suits in English · suits (see also: cards, playing cards) (layout · text) | |||
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hearts | diamonds | spades | clubs |
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spades
- third-person singular simple present indicative of spade
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