nullo

Definitions

1. A bid in which the bidder asserts that he or she will not take any tricks.
2. One who has their genitals (and sometimes nipples) surgically removed (nullification) as a form of body modification.
   neologism

Equivalents

Examples

“If the adversaries of a nullo revoke, the declarer can give⟳ them three of his tricks, or take⟳ 100 in honours as penalty. If he revokes, they take⟳ 100 penalty as usual. SUGGESTIONS FOR BIDDING. The dealer should never bid a nullo originally ...”

“It takes a better nullo hand to raise⟳ nullos than to bid them. Dummy shows. A player who has once been called off from nullos by his partner should never return⟳ to them.”

“This public presentation of the mutilation of the penis is not obviously very different from the forms of disassembly of the penis engaged in by male body modifiers – particularly nullos and transgenders – on the Body Modification Ezine website.”

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