cardplay

English

Etymology

card +‎ play

Noun

cardplay (uncountable)

1. The playing of card games.
   • 2006, Trevor Carolan, Pillow Book of Doctor Jazz, page 61:

     Wearied of cardplay the Chinese sprawled across the seats like drowsy primates, resting their noggins indecorously in the aisle, and gracing the floorboards with their hair as, upside down, they tracked the movements of various kiddies […]

   • 2011, Richard Gray, A History of American Literature:

     The trouble is, in this account of a gambler seeking shelter from the storm in the numbness of cardplay, the prose is similarly, symptomatically numb.