Meanings
present singular third person missorts · participle present missorting · participle past missorted · past missorted
- transitiveTo sort incorrectly; to misorder.
And if four clubs was to be taken as natural, presumably South had missorted his hand, perhaps originally thinking he had 4-3-3-3 distribution when he was really 7-3-3-0; or, more likely, he had a six-card club suit and was willing to risk ending in four no-trump if North did not have extra values.
2007 February 17, Phillip Alder, “A Forgetful Bidding Moment, but Lady Luck Comes Calling”, in New York Times
Origin
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