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psychic bid
noun
- a bid designed to mislead one's opponents that is not based on the strength of one's hand or of the suit named but rather on one's feeling that not bidding would be more costly.
Word History and Origins
Origin of psychic bid1
Example Sentences
For example, how do you program to allow for a psychic bid?
Over the drowned hulk of No. 117, another lightship, No. 106, dropped anchor in clear water, began sending beacon signals to all ships at sea: � � � � � � � � � � � � When the field took the turn in the Youthful Stakes, run at Jamaica fortnight ago, Psychic Bid, of Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, went wide.
The bit slipped through Psychic Bid's angry mouth.
Referees decided that, though Lenz magazine articles inveighed against "psychic" bids, and though this match is officially to follow the Lenz and Culbertson systems, a "psychic" bid by Lenz-Partner Jacoby was permissible.
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