old maid

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A children's card game, sometimes played with a special deck, where the object of the game is for each player to find matches for all the cards in his hand, without being stuck with the single unmatchable card

The only card games I know are Go Fish and Old Maid.

The unmatchable card itself

The Joker will serve as the Old Maid.

A particular kind of zinnia
A particular kind of periwinkle
An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels

Crawford asked Congress to double funding for the FDA's $200 million old-maid-elimination research project.

A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid"
An old woman who has never married; a spinster

If she is looking for the perfect man before she marries, she'll be an old maid.

An unpaired card in that game
an elderly unmarried woman
commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid') a person who is primly fastidious
a person who is primly fastidious
any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
disapproval People sometimes refer to an old or middle-aged woman as an old maid when she has never married and they think that it is unlikely that she ever will marry. This use could cause offence. Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid. = spinster. an offensive word for a woman who has never married and is not young any more = spinster
older single woman
old maid
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