beggar-my-neighbour
World English Dictionary
| beggar-my-neighbour | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player |
| 2. | (modifier) relating to or denoting an advantage gained by one side at the expense of the other: beggar-my-neighbour policies |
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| beggar-my-neighbour | |
noun | |
| a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards [syn: beggar-my-neighbor] |
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