Meanings of canasta in English

How can I play canasta when there's a psycho in distress?

The four of them played intricate games of canasta until late in the night.

And anyway, you forget we're going out this evening, to Bill and Betty's for canasta.

The two of you were playing canasta.

They play canasta every Wednesday, attend operas and put in appearances in the husbands' world only when required.

With the arrival of spring, card tables were abandoned for front porch rockers, and conversation replaced canasta and bridge.

They was playing canasta.

Old ladies, brogue, canasta.

Rupert Kennedy, fourteen, was killed during the demonstration but Mrs. K gave birth to triplets at her afternoon canasta game.

The table, at which innumerable widows had sat down to canasta, shuddered paroxysmally, causing beakers of chemicals to rattle and sway.

There were more street vendors offering tacos de canasta, shirts with the image of Che Guevara and Ray Ban sunglasses manufactured in China than activists.

Janet proposed a hand of bridge; Tim suggested poker, James voted for pinochle, and Martha wanted to toss a coin between canasta or gin rummy.

The New Yorker, December 15, 1956 P. 41 The writer's wife showed him two prizes she had bought for her canasta group.

We need a few more days, do the last tests on Eloise, and...Canasta!

Professor and Mrs Pyle, the women's lunch clubs; would they teach her Canasta?

Baker is represented by lightly raced filly Van Giz and promising stayer Canasta.