Happy Families—a game played with a pack of special cards:
- The well-known game of Happy Families is nothing but a variation of Spade the Gardener.
happy family—
1. said of a group of people living together in harmony:
- All the Ashkenazic tribes lived very much like a happy family.
2. (Austral.) a popular name of the grey-crowned babbler:
- From their habit of associating in flocks, they are known as the “Twelve Apostles,” a name also shared in some parts with that of “Happy Family.”