crossruff

A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand

Noun

  1. A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand
    • When West discarded a club, South could have won with dummy's ace and played on crossruff lines. - 2009 January 8, Phillip Alder, “Part 1 of an Experiment, Ending in a Trump Coup”, Bridge, in New York Times:

Origin

Etymology tree English cross- English ruff English crossruff From cross- + ruff.

Forms

crossruffs

Related

overruff ruff underruff

Verb

  1. To execute a play of this kind.

Forms

crossruffs crossruffing crossruffed