euchre
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈjuːkəɹ/
noun
Etymology: 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.
- A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
verb
Etymology: 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.
- 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.”