overcall

1. 1.

   (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)

   Synonymsoverbid

   Broaderbid

   bridge

Other forms of overcall

plural

overcalls·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overcall

What does overcall mean?

overcall means "(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)".

How many syllables are in overcall?

overcall has 3 syllables: o-ver-call. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for overcall?

Close synonyms include overbid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overcall a common word?

overcall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.