authors

authors
/aw"theuhrz/, n. (used with a sing. v.)
a card game for two or more persons that is played with a 52-card pack, the object being to take the largest number of tricks consisting of four cards of the same denomination.
[1865-70, Amer.; pl. of AUTHOR]

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