canasta
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kəˈnæstə/
canasta (plural canastas)
- (uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
- 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You, ABA Journal, page 492 ↗,
- “Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”
- “Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn′t know you could play that silly game.”
- 2004, Gregory Bateson, 15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy, Henry Bial (editor), The Performance Studies Reader, page 130 ↗,
- Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules. […] We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.
- 2011, Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies, unnumbered page ↗,
- Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.
- 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You, ABA Journal, page 492 ↗,
- (countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
- 1949 December 19, The Canasta Craze, Life (magazine), page 47 ↗,
- Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.
- 1949 December 19, The Canasta Craze, Life (magazine), page 47 ↗,
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