The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word RUFFS which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2004.
Bridge plays crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| RUFFS | 40 % | 5 |
| FINESSES | 40 % | 8 |
| DISCARDS | 20 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bridge plays
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Crossword Answer definitions
RUFFS noun- A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
- Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
- Senses relating to animals.
- A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
- An exhibition of haughtiness or pride.
- Tumultuous or wanton conduct or procedure.
- To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
- Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
- To ruffle; to disorder.
- Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.
- To boast, to brag.
- To speak in a loud and domineering manner; to bluster, to swagger.
- Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff.
- A bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish of the family Sparidae found in temperate and tropical waters; a porgy or sea bream.
- An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
- A game similar to whist and its predecessor.
- To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).
- Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
- To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
- Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
- Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish.
- Other species in the same genus.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result RUFFS
- Elizabethan collars
- Plays a trump card
- Folded collars
- Plays a trump card, in bridge
- Bridge plays
- Wheel-shaped collars.
- Goffered collars.
- Bridge plays.
- Trumps when unable to follow suit
- Elizabethan neck decorations
More clues leading to the result FINESSES
- Handles adroitly
- Handles skillfully
- Manages deftly
- Artifices.
- Tricks.
- Bridge plays.
- Bridge maneuvers.
- Bridge plays
- What queens are often used for
- Bridge ploys