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transitive. Cards. To win or take (a trick); to play to advantage (a certain card); (Bridge) to win the number of tricks that fulfils (a…
Cards. (a) (figurative from 2) To be of higher value than, to ‘beat’ (another card, hand, or suit); also intransitive with of (cf. 10a); (b) to…
transitive. To beat by winning a slam; also dialect, to trump. Hence transferred, to beat completely.