cardplaying
English
Etymology
Noun
cardplaying (uncountable)
- The playing of card games.
- 2007 April 29, John Anderson, “Love and Loneliness on the Las Vegas Strip”, in New York Times[1]:
- It doesn’t seem accidental that the phrase “luck of the draw” can apply equally to cardplaying or gunslinging, or that the denouement of “Lucky You” — a showdown between Mr. Bana’s character and his nemesis, L. C., played by Robert Duvall — recalls not just the 52-card catharsis of “The Cincinnati Kid” but also the showdowns that climax many great westerns.