A card game in which the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the bank up to but not exceeding 21

Usage examples of blackjack.

Even the decks of cards used at the blackjack and poker tables were specially printed, with the Twelve Apostles replacing the face cards, the Dove of the Holy Spirit replacing the aces, Jesus instead of the Joker, and the Fairchild Ministry logo on the back.

The second vehicle carried General MacKenzie Hawkins in the front with Mrs Lafferty, as Desis One and Two were in the back, playing blackjack with a deck of cards appropriated from the former ski lodge.

Made it to a feedlot operator who liked to go off to Vegas and try to beat the blackjack tables.

I took the opening and told him briefly what happened last night, just leaving out the part about Bobbi and the blackjack game.

Swords, daggers, crossbows and bolts, harquebuses, lances, arrows, maces were mixed higgledy-piggledy with more modern guns, rifles, blackjacks, grenades, and rocket launchers.

Lady Zenadia was the woman who had bought the Vipers their blackjacks?

Peter himself could have put away his blackjack and taken the same hold.

He, like them, was a blackjack dealer who understood never to hit on 19.

But the blackjack missed, and then the redheaded man felt it plucked from his fingers, as if he were no stronger than a child.

And then there was pressure that stopped the red-haired man from getting up, and then he- felt the blackjack come down again on his face, hard this time, and then everything went black, all black, and he saw, heard, felt nothing anymore because he was dead.

Lane, Diana chose a blackjack table and sat down to play, concentrating on the game with difficulty.

On the arm of Kevin Sheridan, she slowly looked over the roulette and blackjack tables, past the faro players and the bar.

Wilson on the floor boards, and one of them had a blackjack ready in case he moved.

A roar of delight from his audience, with stamping of feet and beating of blackjacks against the ground, showed how thoroughly the song was to their taste, while John modestly retired into a quart pot, which he drained in four giant gulps.

But it seems that even when they are kids they have very little use for each other, and after they grow up and Johnny gets on the strong-arm squad, he never misses a chance to push Big Jule around, and sometimes trying to boff Big Jule with his blackjack, and it is well known to one and all that before Big Jule leaves town the last time, he takes a punch at Johnny Brannigan, and Johnny swears he will never rest until he puts Big Jule where he belongs, although where Big Jule belongs, Johnny does not say.