high-card en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or related to a high suit card.
Now that the fallacy of basing bids on high-card values only has been realized, experts are modifying their systems of valuation more and more, so as to count actual tricks and not merely high-card tricks (Quick Tricks or Honour Tricks).
2013, F. Courtenay, The Losing Trick Count - A Book of Bridge Technique: