"Trump-tight"

[Wilson Gray]

Here's another one for you, Margaret. Is the person who has pulled/run
a Boston said to have "whipped game" or "run game" or "worked game" on
the opposing team or is something else said? In St. Louis, it's
"whipped," but I've heard "run" used far more widely, with an
occasional "worked" heard here and there.

-Wilson

On 1/27/06, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I remember "trump-tight" from bid whist, though I'm familiar with "run a Boston" instead of "pull a Boston."
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>   M. Lee
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>   Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>   From the site, Slang of the Week:
>
> "Trump-Tight- (adj.)- Super tight, crazy tight, really fucking cool.
>
> "Origin- No idea. I heard Snoop say it on Doggystyle.
>
> "Use: 'Dude, I just got the new Jay-Z record and that shit is
> trump-tight! He's not overrated at all, bro!'"
>
>
> Probable origin
>
> In the card game of bid whist - the social card game of choice in
> Afrite America - when a player has a hand that consists entirely of
> trumps, he/she is said to be "trump-tight." The person who is
> trump-tight turns the rest of the tricks (I know, but since people
> learn to play whist long before they learn to play the game, the pun
> is tradionally ignored) and thereby wins the deal and, under the right
> circumstances, also wins the game. In fact, the player may even "pull
> a Boston," the bid-whist equivalent of a bridge grand slam, or he/she
> may at least "pull a young Boston," the equivalent of a small slam, as
> a consequence of being trump-tight.
>
> "Trump-tight" is, to quote The Clovers, "a real fine way to be!"
>
> -Wilson Gray
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