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- noun Alternative form of
pinochle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
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Examples
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Most of the other players had given up even trying, and were just sitting around playing pinocle.
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January 22, 2008 at 4:59 pm teh werms crwl in an teh werms crawl out, teh wirms play pinocle on yer snout, they eat your eyes and then yore nose, they eat teh jelly between yer towz….
I not playin wit you guys - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Husky Marr and Black Shand Fraser were playing pinocle at the table, bickering over the game like a pair of ill-conditioned schoolboys.
The Huntress Hulbert Footner 1911
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The game of pinocle was frequently halted for recriminations.
The Huntress Hulbert Footner 1911
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Sometimes, it is true, he did slip down to the corner for maybe zwei glasses of beer and a game of pinocle; but then, likely as not, there would come inopportunely a towheaded descendant to tell him Mommer needed him back at the flat right away to mind the baby while she went marketing or to the movies.
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"Four aces, and pinocle," announced Mr. Gooch with grim satisfaction.
A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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He said he would be ever so much happier up in his study, playing pinocle, than sitting out here in a straight-back gilt chair eating ice cream.
A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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Koblin had calmed down sufficiently to offer an evasive explanation, the guests trooped back to the piazza, and three games of auction pinocle, which had started in the dining-room after the tables had been cleared, came to an abrupt close.
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905
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Only one thing I must got to say to you, Sidney: you would got to commence small; so if what you are saying about auction pinocle and other monkey business goes, Sidney, all right.
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905
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"Well, you might just as well of been playing auction pinocle last night for all the good it would do us."
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905
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