Card-game names

[Mark A. Mandel]

Wilson sez:
>>
Is it simply "hearts" or is it "dirty hearts"?

        ...

And there's an alternate name for the game, "spades," that I can't
recall at the moment.
<<

Nor I, but I know at least two nicknames in Hearts for the Queen of Spades,
which is the card you least want to get:
        Dirty Dora
        the Black Bitch

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