Meaning of Uno reverse card | Babel Free

Definitions

A notional card that can suddenly reverse a situation when played.

figuratively, humorous

Examples

“The Habs could of course match the offer and work on an 8-year deal for Kotkaniemi to sign in the next year, which would have always come in at a figure above $6 million. But Marc Bergevin could pull out the Uno reverse card to the Hurricanes Uno reverse card and not match the offer, leaving them in the tricky situation of paying four centremen over $4.75 million a year and just taking the compensation and hope that the Canes miss the playoffs.”

“PC games are slowly, but surely, becoming more mobile, with the likes of Valve’s Steam Deck and Razer’s cloud handheld making portable big-budget gaming a possibility. Yet, at the Game Awards 2022, Google played an Uno reverse card, as the company revealed it’s bringing mobile games to gaming PCs via a Play Store Windows port.”

“Many viewers criticized @msmabelmartinez for seemingly not being familiar with how much liquid a cocktail should contain. […] Others remarked that the TikToker was hit with an Uno reverse card of sorts, as it appeared that she was trying to put the restaurant on blast. "Comment section isn’t going the way you thought it would," one claimed.”

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