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A form of 46-Across
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euchre
Alternative clues for the word euchre
- Its highest card is jack of trumps
- Game often played with a 24-card deck
- Trick-taking game
- It takes three tricks to get a hand
- Game in which the highest cards are the bowers
- Each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
- Game with a 32-card deck
- Game played with a 24- or 32-card deck
Word definitions for euchre in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Euchre \Eu"chre\, v. t. To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump. To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [Slang.]
Usage examples of euchre.
After that we lit our pipes, and we three began to play all-fours and euchre, sometimes one pair, sometimes another.
These latter played euchre in the smoking room day and night, drank astonishing quantities of raw whisky without being in the least affected by it, and were the happiest people I think I ever saw.
As regards euchre and poker and the other distractions of the place he was guilty of none.
You could go back perhaps, he hasarded, still thinking of the very unpleasant scene at Westland Row terminus when it was perfectly evident that the other two, Mulligan, that is, and that English tourist friend of his, who eventually euchred their third companion, were patently trying as if the whole bally station belonged to them to give Stephen the slip in the confusion, which they did.
It was for me to make the announcement, and it was here, I think after all these years, that I euchred Dwyer and Jock.
In the carriage nearest the cattle-vans, some drovers and scrub-cutters were playing euchre, and spasmodically chorusing the shrill music from an uncertain concertina.
An' your Uncle Euchre ducked his nut out of the door an' come home.