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Card game with tricks
Answer for the clue "Card game with tricks ", 6 letters:
euchre
Alternative clues for the word euchre
- Rod recalled that man pocketing Queen in card game
- Trick-taking game
- Trick-taking card game
- Game in which the right bower is the highest card
- Cheat, slangily
- Game in which the highest trump card is called the right bower
- Each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
- Game in which each player receives five cards
- Game played with 24 cards
Word definitions for euchre in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of card game played with a partial deck, 1846, American English, of unknown origin. Elements of the game indicate it might be from GermanIn early use also uker , yucker .
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.