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Meaning of nullo | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈnʌ.ləʊ

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.

Equivalents

Italiano nullo

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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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