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Overbid

verb
(past overbid; past part. overbidden; pres. part. overbidding)
1.
To bid for more tricks than one can expect to win,.
2.
Bid more than the object is worth.
noun
1.
A bid that is higher than preceding bids.
2.
(bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand).  Synonym: overcall.





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"Overbid" Quotes from Famous Books



... while Swift was at Laracor, the sale of a farm and stock, the farmer being dead. Swift chanced to walk past during the auction just as a pen of poultry had been put up. Roger bid for them, and was overbid by a farmer of the name of Hatch. "What, Roger, won't you buy the poultry?" exclaimed Swift. "No, sir," said Roger, "I see they ...
— Irish Wit and Humor - Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell • Anonymous


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