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  • n  a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist

  • For the past year he played pinochle every Sunday night with Instructor Wilson.
  • She plays pinochle and Pictionary with such vigor that friends have to remind her they're only games.
  • Check Pinochle combines pinochle's luck-of-the-draw fun with the thoughtfulness, but not the ultimate science, of bridge (see col.
Quotes

  • Dana White in Vancouver Sun
    I don't care if it's boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, pinochle, I don't care what it is, this guy is the best fighter in the world,White said.
  • Fiorello LaGuardia in History News Network
    Famed for dropping in unexpectedly on city offices and dressing down slackers, LaGuardia explained that he did "not want any of the pinochle club atmosphere to take hold" in his city government.
  • Kirk Franklin in Catonsville Times
    Bill, for the last 10 years, was my pinochle partner,Franklin said of the card game matchups against his wife, Alison, and sister, Chris Franklin. "Every week, we would try to get in three games. But Bill was so slow. He would sit there...

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