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Euchre

//ˈjuːkəɹ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To deceive or outwit.

    "Well: he guesses They have euchred Mexico into some such Byzantine exercise, probably to do with the Americans. Perhaps the Russians."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.

Etymology 2

Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.

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