Fantan
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative form of fan-tan. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 2 a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards wordnet
- 3 a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4) wordnet
Synonyms
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