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Definition of "overruff" []

  • Games To overtrump. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "overruff" in a sentence
  • "East can overruff or discard, but his queen of trumps wins the defenders 'only trick."
  • "Whichever red suit he led from the table, West could overruff if South ruffed low, or discard if South ruffed with the ace or the king."
  • "Otherwise you would ruff the diamond with the seven and East would overruff with the eight to cash his heart, and you would have ♠ AJ remaining over South's ♠ K10."
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