Smother play in contract bridge is a type of endplay where an opponent's apparent trump trick goes away.
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Famous quotes containing the words smother and/or play:
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)