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EUCHRE
euchre, five hundred
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
euchre (countable and uncountable, plural euchres)
(card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
Verb
euchre (third-person singular simple present euchres, present participle euchring, simple past and past participle euchred)
To deceive or outwit.
Source: Wiktionary
Eu"chre, n. Etym: [Perh. from F. écarté.]
Definition: 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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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