a bridge-like game--the word means "trump," and refers to the trump suit and the trump cards

Briscola (brìscula in Sicilian, briškula in Croatian, la brisca in Spanish) is an Italian trick-taking card game for two to six players, played with a standard Italian 40-card deck. The game is also popular in Croatia and Spain. With three or six players, twos are removed from the deck to ensure the number of cards in the deck is a multiple of the number of players; one two for three players and all four twos for six players.