overcall
- n (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand)
- Theoretically, the new rules make possible a bid of eight: when a player makes an insufficient bidsuch as seven diamonds to overcall seven heartshis opponents may insist .
- With his explosive partner Tobias Stone, he devised some widely used bidding innovations, including the "preempt overcall" (e.