verb / noun
revoke
To fail to follow suit in a card game when required.
He revokes when he plays a club despite holding the suit led.
Etymology
Revoke ordinarily means to call back or invalidate. The card-game term names a breach of the required following-suit rule; its exact semantic route is not secure enough for a more specific explanation.
More examples
- I revoked because I overlooked a heart in my hand.
- The referee imposes a penalty for the revoke.
- Check your hand before playing so you don't revoke.
Forms
revoke · revokes · revoked · revoking
Similar words
- renege
- Names the same failure to follow suit in cards.