(past overbid; past part. overbidden; pres. part. overbidding)
1.
To bid for more tricks than one can expect to win,.
2.
Bid more than the object is worth.
noun
1.
A bid that is higher than preceding bids.
2.
(bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand). Synonym:overcall.
... obliged to call for sealed bids, or anything like that, so when I've heard from everybody, I'll give you a chance to bid against the highest offer in hand. If you want to top it, you can have the collection for any kind of an overbid that doesn't look ... — Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... be able to prevent it? Ah! Red Fox, if ever I hold you at a gun's end, the Lord have pity upon ye!" (Alan stopped to swallow down his anger.) "Well, David, what does he do? He declares all the farms to let. And, thinks he, in his black heart, 'I'll soon get other tenants that'll overbid these Stewarts, and Maccolls, and Macrobs' (for these are all names in my clan, David); 'and then,' thinks he, 'Ardshiel will have to hold his ... — Kidnapped • Robert Louis Stevenson
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