Terminology
Squeeze play description depends upon the following terms:
- Busy card(s) - card(s) held by defenders which are winners or protecting winners
- Count - knowing the cards held by the opponents; sometimes requires knowledge gained from the bidding and prior play of which cards in each suit is held by each defender
- Count is rectified - being at the point in play where the declarer has lost all the tricks he plans to lose
- Entry or communication - the ability of declarer to get between his hand and dummy (or the reverse)
- Idle card(s) - card(s) that can safely be discarded by defenders
- Menace or threat card(s) - card(s) held by declarer or dummy which is a loser but which can become a winner when the squeeze is operated
- Squeezee (slang) - the defender(s) obligated to discard a card which is a winner or protects a winner
- Squeeze card - the card which when led forces the defender(s) to discard a busy card
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