a version of whist for four players acting independently, each of whom may bid to win or lose a fixed number of tricks before play starts, trumps having usually been decided by cutting
solo whist in American English
noun
Cards
a variety of whist in which each player can offer to play any of seven specified bids
Word origin
[1890–95]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cholesterol, historicism, honky-tonk, neoclassicism, takedown