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In the game of Bridge, the naming of the trump suit or the declaring of ‘no trumps’ by any of the players.
Bridge. In the earliest forms of the game: a declaration. In later use: a contract that is or could be successful.
In the game of auction bridge, an undertaking to make a certain number of tricks; hence contract bridge (formerly contract auction), a form of…
a score of fewer than the required points for a game.