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doubleton

NOUN
  1. (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player

How To Use doubleton In A Sentence

  • Can East work out whether West has led from a singleton or a doubleton? Times, Sunday Times
  • Why can't West be leading top of a doubleton club? Times, Sunday Times
  • South would pass with just a doubleton. Times, Sunday Times
  • If declarer believed that Sementa had chosen the unorthodox lead of a low card from a doubleton, he could now have made the contract easily because he had a tenace in diamonds – the eight would force West to cover with the nine, and declarer's six would beat West's three. Two unorthodox leads
  • When leading from a doubleton you must lead top. Times, Sunday Times
  • Initially, the differential sites are classified into singletons, doubletons, or tripletons for each of the six OTUs separately or for the various combinations of the OTUs, as described in Materials and Methods.
  • West signaled with the ten to show a doubleton, and East let dummy's king and queen win. Bridge
  • When instead he felled North's doubleton ace, he could not establish the spade suit and eventually finished two down. Netherlands win at home
  • Of these, 75 are singletons, two are doubletons, and one is present in three sequences.
  • That might be a singleton or it might be from queen-10 doubleton. Fourth time lucky
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