Crossword clues for lowball
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lowball \lowball\ n. A poker game in which the lowest-ranking hand wins.
lowball \lowball\ v. t. to give a deceptively low estimate of the price of (merchandise or services); -- a sales tactic to induce a person to buy.
Syn: underestimate.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated '''Stop'''. 2 (context poker English) A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.) 3 A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser. 4 An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent. 2 (context transitive English) To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low. 3 (context transitive English) To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly.
WordNet
v. make a deliberately low estimate; "The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed" [syn: underestimate]
Wikipedia
Lowball was an early type of railway signal which indicated danger or a need to stop. The ball signal was a light or indicator suspended from a rope, that could move upwards and downwards, held by a weighted ball. The lowball signal was indicated when the weighted ball, and therefore signal, was at the end of its rope in the low position, indicating stop.
It can also refer to:
- Low-ball, a persuasion technique
- Lowball (poker), a variant of the card game poker, in which hand values are reversed so that the lowest-valued hand wins
- Lowball estimate, also known as cost underestimation, the estimation of the lower bound of a venture's cost
- Lowball glass, a short glass tumbler used for serving certain varieties of alcoholic beverages
Lowball or low poker is a variant of poker in which the normal ranking of hands is inverted. Several variations of lowball poker exist, differing in whether aces are treated as high cards or low cards, and whether or not straights and flushes are used.
Usage examples of "lowball".
Last he put on a baseball cap from the Tiara Casino, the logo of which was the best hand in Kansas City Lowball, 7-5-4-3-2 unsuited.
Like a surgeon before a routine operation, Oscar had learned to lowball his chances of success.
There is a sound that might be a fingernail pushing an ice cube around a lowball glass.
He lowered himself carefully, holding the lowball glass in front of him, and sank down in the chair.
Madelaine sat on the foot of the Barcalounger, near his ankles, her left hand resting on his knee, sipping a martini from a thick lowball glass.
He took some ice from a silver ice bucket and put it in a lowball glass and poured some Wild Turkey over it.
And how did a piece of slime like Phil Frigging Skink get the estimable Troy Jefferson, with his overt political ambitions, to offer a lowball plea in the first place?
One of those couples would discuss it long and hard and then make a lowball offer that would be quickly accepted.
Lloyd brought them alexanders in crystal lowball glasses they took upstairs with their coats and handbags.
Lloyd came with an alexander in a lowball glass, the crystal, he handed to Kelly in the chair and looked at Montez sitting on the other side of the bed, the lamp on, reading about Del Rio Power.
Emery Neff found that appraisal, scanned it, and jumped to the logical conclusion: that McKinley was a crook, lowballing so she could buy the books for a song.