Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops
(noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
newmarket
(noun) a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century
Source: WordNet® 3.1
The cloak and card game are named after the English town.
Newmarket
A market town in Suffolk, England, with a famous racecourse.
A town in Cork, Ireland.
A townland in Kilkenny, Ireland.
A town in Ontario, Canada.
A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
A card game in which players try to play their cards in a sequence selected by cards from a second deck.
Newmarket (plural Newmarkets)
A long, close-fitting cloak.
Source: Wiktionary
New"mar`ket, n. Etym: [From Newmarket, England.]
Definition: A long, closely fitting cloak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
