n. 25B6; noun
a piece of stiff card : CARDBOARD, pasteboard, board.
I'll send her a card : GREETINGS CARD, postcard.
she produced her card : IDENTIFICATION, ID, credentials; business card.
she paid with her card : CREDIT CARD, debit card, cash card, swipe card; informal plastic.
the cards were dealt : PLAYING CARD; ( cards ) pack of cards. See lists here and at poker , suit .
(informal, dated) he said she was a card : ECCENTRIC, character; JOKER, wit, wag, jester, clown; informal laugh, scream, hoot, riot; informal, dated caution.
25A0; give someone their cards (Brit. informal) DISMISS, get rid of, lay off, make redundant, let someone go, discharge; informal sack, fire, kick/boot out, give someone their marching orders, give someone the (old) heave-ho, give someone the elbow/push.
25A0; on the cards (informal) LIKELY, possible, probable, expected, in the wind, in the offing.
Card Games
all fours old maid
auction bridge ombre
baccarat panguingue
beggar-my-neighbour patience
bezique Pedro Sancho
blackjack Pelmanism
Black Maria penny ante
Boston pinochle
brag piquet
bridge pitch
canasta poker
Canfield pontoon
cheat Pope Joan
chemin de fer primero
cooncan quinze
cribbage racing demon
donkey red dog
duplicate bridge rouge et noir
écarté rubber bridge
euchre rummy
fan-tan Russian Bank
faro short whist
five hundred skat
gin rummy skin
happy families snap
hearts solitaire
high-low solo whist
hoy strip Jack naked
klobbiyos strip poker
Klondike stud poker
lansquenet thirty-one
loo three-card monte
Michigan trente et quarante
monte twenty-five
nap twenty-one
napoleon vingt-et-un
Newmarket whist