canasta

ca·nas·ta  (k-nst)

n.

A card game for two to six players, related to rummy and requiring two or three decks of cards.

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[Spanish, from canasto, basket, from Latin canistrum; see canister.]

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canasta

Noun

a card game like rummy, played with two packs of cards [Spanish: basket (because two packs, or a basketful, of cards are required)]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

canasta - a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank basket rummy, meld rum, rummy - a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards bolivia - a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded samba - a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers