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Outwit; cheat
Answer for the clue "Outwit; cheat ", 6 letters:
euchre
Alternative clues for the word euchre
- It takes three tricks to get a hand
- Game that can be played with half a pinochle deck
- Trick-taking card game
- Game played with high cards
- Game often played with a 24-card deck
- A form of 46-Across
- Its highest card is jack of trumps
- Each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
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.]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Euchre or eucre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24, 25, or sometimes 32, standard playing cards . It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented ...
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.