suited

English

Pronunciation

Verb

suited

  1. simple past tense and past participle of suit

Adjective

suited (not comparable)

  1. (card games, in combination) Having the specified number or kind of suits.
    a three-suited hand
  2. (poker, of two or more cards) Of the same suit.
    Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind
  3. Wearing a suit.
    • 2003, Jonathan Swan, Quack Magic: The Dubious History of Health Fads and Cures, Ebury Press, →ISBN:
      Skull-caps and alchemical paraphernalia surrounded the seventeenth-century quack, whereas his nineteenth-century equivalent might appear top-hatted and suited, evidently a person of learning and ‘quality’.
    • 2011, Amber Kizer, Wildcat Fireflies, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 36:
      “Them?” I pointed to a couple of top-hatted, suited men leaning against a building farther down the street.
    • 2017, Jesse J[ames] Holland, Black Panther: Who Is the Black Panther?, Marvel Worldwide, Inc., →ISBN:
      One of the black-suited drivers nodded at his compatriots and slowly walked up to one of the men on the firing line.

Derived terms

  • well-suited, well suited

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