About The Word Euchre
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Euchre
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What's The Definition Of Euchre?
[n] a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
Synonyms | Synonyms for Euchre: five hundred Related Terms | Find terms related to Euchre: beat | beguile of | bilk | bunco | burn | cheat | chisel | chouse | chouse out of | cog | cog the dice | con | cozen | crib | defraud | diddle | do in | do out of | finagle | flam | fleece | flimflam | fob | fudge | gouge | gull | gyp | have | hocus | hocus-pocus | mulct | pack the deal | pigeon | practice fraud upon | rook | scam | screw | sell gold bricks | shave | shortchange | stack the cards | stick | sting | swindle | take a dive | thimblerig | throw a fight | victimize Euchre In Webster's Dictionary \Eu"chre\, n. [Perh. from F. ['e]cart['e].]
A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four
persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called
the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the
trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the
seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot.
See {Bower}.
\Eu"chre\, v. t. 1. To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump. 2. To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [Slang.] |
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