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Answer for the clue "Raucous card game ", 8 letters:
slapjack

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Word definitions for slapjack in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Slapjack , also known as Slaps , is a simple standard-deck card game , generally played among children. It can often be a child's first introduction to playing cards . The game is related to Egyptian Ratscrew and is also sometimes known as Heart Attack. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US dialect English) A type of pancake, or flapjack 2 A simple card game similar to snap

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slapjack \Slap"jack`\, n. A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake. [Local, U.S.]

Usage examples of slapjack.

He idly wondered whether she was playing slapjack because she was in a hurry to clean everyone else out or just stupid.

She and Jimmy ate hamburgers that evening, watched the video, played go fish, then slapjack, then go fish again.

Scrabble and pinochle, Chinese checkers, and slapjack, squabbling like kids over the Parcheesi board.

Talking Rain and drank it empty, then showered, put on my pajama bottoms, and tried to read, my shield, handcuffs, slapjack, and .

Instead, slapjack was the game she played to lose, whenever she messed up and needed to make up, like Isuzu and me now.

Troopers evicted the members of a commune in Texas, beating the boys with slapjacks, grabbing handcuffed girls by the pussy, smacking little kids around, and killing the stock, all of which Prairie, breathing deliberately, made herself watch.

Valley, most of us made it our practice to rise with the dawn, and, immediately after a bath in the ice-cold Merced, take a breakfast which might sometimes fail in the game-department, but was an invariable success, considered as slapjacks and coffee.

That afternoon they had come to the bottom of the flour-bag, after living for three days on unleavened slapjacks without either butter or sirup.

Bury your fist in their stomachs, leave them puking on their knees, click off their light switch with a slapjack if they still want to play.

The slapjacks are a solid job of work, made to last, and not go to pieces in a person's stomach like a trivial bun: we might record on them, in cuneiform characters, our incipient civilization.

Her mother lived to a vener'ble age, and died while in the act of frying slapjacks for the County Commissioners.