crossruff
English
Etymology
cross- + ruff
Noun
crossruff (plural crossruffs)
- (bridge) A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand
- 2009, January 8, “Phillip Alder”, in Part 1 of an Experiment, Ending in a Trump Coup:
- When West discarded a club, South could have won with dummy's ace and played on crossruff lines.
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Related terms
- overruff
- ruff
- underruff
See also
Verb
crossruff (third-person singular simple present crossruffs, present participle crossruffing, simple past and past participle crossruffed)
- To execute a crossruff