prevent another player from taking three tricks ((in euchre card game); get the better of a rival, gain an advantage over an opponent; outwit
type of trick-taking card game (similar to ecarte) for two to four players, played with the 32 highest cards and its goal is to take three tricks to win a hand
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Euchre Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.
To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.
(v. t.)
To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.
To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA 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
\eu"chre\, v. t.
1. to defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.
2. to defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [slang.]
euchre
\eu"chre\ (?), n. [perh. from f. écarté.] 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.
similar words(1)
progressive euchre
1. outwit; get the better of, as by scheming; 2. ruin or spoil: "That euchred it" (from the card game "euchre")
beaten; exhausted
Noun
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
(synonym) five hundred
(hypernym) card game, cards
Euchre Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Euchre or eucre, is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24 standard playing cards. It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented around 1860 to act as a top trump or best bower (from the German word Bauer, "farmer", denoting also the jack). It is believed to be closely related to the French game Écarté that was popularized in the United States by the Cornish and Pennsylvania Dutch, and to the seventeenth-century game of bad repute Loo. It may be sometimes referred to as Knock Euchre to distinguish it from Bid Euchre.
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