Crossword clues for euchre
euchre
- Game with a 32-card deck
- Game played with 32 cards
- It takes three tricks to get a hand
- Game usually played with 32 cards
- Game that can be played with half a pinochle deck
- Game in which the highest trump card is called the right bower
- Card game with trumps
- Its highest card is jack of trumps
- Game that uses 24 cards
- Game played with high cards
- Game played with a 24- or 32-card deck
- Game often played with a 24-card deck
- Game in which the right bower is the highest card
- Game in which the highest cards are the bowers
- Common card game
- Cheat, informally
- Card game with bowers
- Card game that introduced the joker
- Card game that also means 'swindle'
- Game of five hundred
- Swindle
- A form of 46-Across
- Hoodwink
- Game with right and left bowers
- Trick-taking card game
- Game in which each player receives five cards
- Flimflam
- Cheat, slangily
- Trick-taking game
- Bamboozle
- Game played with 24 cards
- A card game similar to ecarte
- Each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
- Card game with tricks
- Outwit; cheat
- Card game with best, right and left bowers
- Rod recalled that man pocketing Queen in card game
- 32-card game
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.]
Euchre \Eu"chre\, n. [Perh. from F. ['e]cart['e].] A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (context card games English) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards. vb. To deceive.
WordNet
n. a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand [syn: five hundred]
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 around 1860 to act as a top trump or best bower (from the German word Bauer, "farmer", denoting also the jack). It is believed to be closely related to the French game Écarté that was popularized in the United States by the Cornish and Pennsylvania Dutch, and to the seventeenth-century game of bad repute Loo. It may be sometimes referred to as Knock Euchre to distinguish it from Bid Euchre.
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.