long card

noun

, Chiefly Bridge.

a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.

First recorded in 1860–65

If it be the long card, you may give the pack to the person who drew it, and leave him at liberty either to replace it or not.

Make the pass at the long card, which will then be at the bottom.

Let the long card be the sixteenth in the pack of piquet cards.

Cut the cards several times, so that a long card be always at bottom.

Cut them again at the second long card, and say, "There are here only eleven cards."

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