euchre

4 definitions found

euchre - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

  Euchre \Eu"chre\, v. t.
     1. To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the
        trump.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [Slang.]
        [1913 Webster]

euchre - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  euchre
      n 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: euchre, five hundred]

euchre - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "euchre":
     beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse,
     chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, defraud,
     diddle, do in, do out of, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob,
     fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, mulct,
     pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, scam, screw,
     sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick,
     sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight,
     victimize