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Definitions of canasta in English

Noun(1) a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank

Examples of canasta in English

(1) At the end, if you have completed your canasta of sevens, each red three you have laid out counts for 100 points bonus.(2) She played canasta obsessively and seemed to have endless folding tables.(3) It beats playing canasta , and you never know what you will see.(4) It is possible to pick up the discard pile if it is not frozen and you have a meld or canasta in the same rank as the top card of the pile.(5) Once ensconced as a fully-fledged academic, he narrowed his field of hobbies to include amateur beatification and canasta .(6) For instance, if I form a canasta of sevens, any further sevens that are discarded by any player prevent the next player from taking the discard pile in the same way that black threes and wild cards do.(7) He also reads music, plays canasta , and can operate a manual transmission car if the seat is pulled up all the way.(8) My grandmother spent her hours playing dominoes and canasta and gossiping.(9) This game, formerly known as Canasta Five, is a variation of canasta played with three 52 card packs plus jokers, which has achieved great success in Australia and New Zealand.(10) The trip meant enjoying a fine meal in the dining car, or perhaps a game of canasta (for the gentlemen in their suits) in the club car.(11) I did not hang around with gangs, did not do drugs and for the previous twelve months I shared a small flat with my grandmum and played countless games of canasta .(12) At the time, we grandkids thought this was some kind of peculiar old-person habit, like playing canasta and reading Reader's Digest.(13) Many women their age are playing canasta or bingo.(14) In samba wild cards are not so important as in canasta .(15) You must have at least one example of each type - natural, mixed, wild, sequence and sevens - completed with 7 cards in each, and you may also have additional canastas or smaller melds of any types.(16) However, you are only allowed to go out if your team has melded two sambas, or two canastas (pure or mixed ones), or one samba and one canasta.

(1) canary seed ::

alpiste

(2) canary grass ::

alpiste

(3) canary bird ::

serin

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1. meld ::

meld

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