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(yär'bûr'ō, -bŭr'ō, -bər-ə) pronunciation
n. Games
A bridge or whist hand containing no honor cards.

[After Charles Anderson Worsley, Second Earl of Yarborough (1809-1897), said to have bet 1,000 to 1 that such a hand would not occur.]


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a totally worthless hand in whist or bridge
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