Definitions
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- noun A children's card game, sometimes played with a special deck, where the object of the game is for each player to find matches for all the cards in his hand, without being stuck with the single unmatchable card.
- noun The unmatchable card itself.
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Examples
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I have used traditional playing cards such as Old Maid, Slap Jack, and War as well as a stash of travel games like Crocodile Dentist and Perfection to peak interests.
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The satisfaction on her face from winning another round of Go Fish, Slapjack, or, appropriately, Old Maid, was hard to miss.
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The satisfaction on her face from winning another round of Go Fish, Slapjack, or, appropriately, Old Maid, was hard to miss.
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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Investment isn't a matter of rational calculus but a manic process that Keynes described as "a game of Snap, of Old Maid, of Musical Chairs, the object of which to pass on the Old Maid — the toxic debt — to one's neighbor before the music stops."
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When we were little, our dad liked to play card games with us: Go Fish, Old Maid, Crazy Eights.
A Losing Hand 2009
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When we were little, our dad liked to play card games with us: Go Fish, Old Maid, Crazy Eights.
A Losing Hand Art Taylor 2009
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The satisfaction on her face from winning another round of Go Fish, Slapjack, or, appropriately, Old Maid, was hard to miss.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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The satisfaction on her face from winning another round of Go Fish, Slapjack, or, appropriately, Old Maid, was hard to miss.
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Simple melding games include Old Maid, where you need only pairs, and Go Fish, where you need only fours of a kind.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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The reader will remember those two words — Old Maid.
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