Glossary of card game terms
The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. This is not intended to be a formal dictionary; precise usage details and multiple closely related senses are omitted here in favor of concise treatment of the basics.
A few games have enough of their own specific terminology to warrant their own glossaries:
Terms in this glossary (unlike those above) should apply to a wide range of card games.
age
court
deal
dealer
deck
deuce
discard
downcard
eldest
hand
in turn
kind
numeral
pack
penalty
pile
plain suit
play
rank
redeal
R.F.G. pile
round
seat
sequence
shuffle
spot card
stack
stock
trick
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