old maid
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- An old woman who has never married; a spinster.
- The Madagascar periwinkle.
- The common zinnia.
- An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels.
- A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid".
- The unmatchable card in that game.
- 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 unmatchable card itself.
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