Lexic.us

Definition of Overbid

1. Verb. To bid for more tricks than one can expect to win,.

2. Noun. A bid that is higher than preceding bids.

3. Verb. Bid more than the object is worth.

4. Noun. (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand).

Definition of Overbid

1. v. t. To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of.

Definition of Overbid

1. Verb. (intransitive) To make an excessively high offer to pay or accept a price. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive card games) To announce a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved. ¹

3. Noun. An excessively high offer to pay or accept a price. ¹

4. Noun. (context: card games) The announcement of a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overbid

1. to bid higher than [v -BID, -BID or -BIDDEN, -BIDDING, -BIDS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbid

overbears overbeat overbeaten overbeating overbeats overbed overbejeweled overbend overbending overbends

overbent overbet overbets overbetted overbetting overbid (current term) overbidden overbidder overbidders overbidding

overbide overbids overbig overbill overbilled overbilling overbills overbind overbinds overbite

Literary usage of Overbid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"397, where ine defendant published that, because he had quit buying from plaintiffs, they privately overbid him, and by "base treachery" secured the ..."

2. Auction Methods Up-to-date by Milton Cooper Work (1920)
"WHEN TO overbid ONE NO TRUMP WITH TWO NO TRUMPS In the cases that have been considered above, the question has been when should a partner's / No Trump be ..."

3. Expert Auction: A Clear Exposition of the Game as Actually Played by Experts by Edward Valentine Shepard, Whist Club, New York (1916)
"To overbid a declaration, a player must bid, either (a) An equal number of tricks of a more valuable declaration or (6) A greater number of tricks. ..."

4. Foster's Bridge Tactics: A Complete System of Self-instruction by Robert Frederick Foster (1903)
"Then Y has the first chance to overbid him. ... If Y passes, Z can overbid them or pass. If it was B that overbid Z, and both Y and Z pass, ..."

5. Lower Canada Reports =: Décisions Des Tribunaux Du Bas-Canada by Simon Lelièvre (1853)
"Held :—That a creditor, who has tendered an overbid, in the case of an ... 20, need not accompany his tender with a deposit of such overbid ;—That he need ..."

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