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Euchre - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Euchre : (noun)
1: 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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Euchre : \Eu"chre\, v. t.
1. To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the
trump.
2. To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [Slang.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Euchre |
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softpediagames: Hardwood Euchre B19 http://bit.ly/6YYuSA |
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JamesTylerJ: Home after chillin at @JordanTJenkins house--watched season 8 of Family Guy while everyone played Euchre, Hold em is my game. |
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Csophae: @jimgaffigan I'm still waiting for the World Euchre Tournament. Poker not so much. |
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