Definitions for euchreˈyu kər
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
eu•chreˈyu kər(n.; v.)-chred, -chring.
(n.)a card game for two, three, or four players, usu. played with the 32 highest cards in the deck.
Category: Games
(v.t.)to get the better of (an opponent) in a hand at euchre by the opponent's failure to win the requisite tricks.
Category: Games
Slang. to cheat; swindle:
euchred out of their investments.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)
Origin of euchre:
1835–45, Amer.
Princeton's WordNet
euchre, five hundred(noun)
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
Wiktionary
euchre(Noun)
A game played with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
euchre(Verb)
To deceive.
Webster Dictionary
Euchre(noun)
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
Euchre(verb)
to defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump
Euchre(verb)
to defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme
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