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eu⋅chre

  [yoo-ker] noun, verb, -chred, -chring.
–noun
1. Cards. a game played by two, three, or four persons, usually with the 32, but sometimes with the 28 or 24, highest cards in the pack.
2. an instance of euchring or being euchred.
–verb (used with object)
3. to get the better of (an opponent) in a hand at euchre by the opponent's failure to win three tricks after having made the trump.
4. Slang. to cheat; swindle.
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1835–45, Americanism; orig. uncert.
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eu·chre   (yōō'kər)   
n.  

  1. A card game played usually with the highest 32 cards, in which each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making the trump is required to take at least 3 tricks to win.

  2. The act of euchring an opponent.

tr.v.   eu·chred, eu·chring, eu·chres

  1. To prevent (an opponent) from taking 3 tricks in euchre.

  2. To deceive by sly or underhand means; cheat: euchred us out of our life savings.


[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
euchre [ˈjukɚ]

  1. tv.
    to cheat or deceive someone. : Those guys'll try to euchre you, so watch out.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

euchre 
card game, 1846, Amer.Eng., of unknown origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Encyclopedia

euchre

card game popular in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Great Britain, especially in Cornwall and the West Country of England. It derives from a 19th-century Alsatian game called juckerspiel from the fact that its two top trumps are Jucker, meaning "jack." This word may also have influenced the choice of the term joker for the extra card introduced into American euchre in the 1860s to act as the "best bower," or topmost trump; bower is from German Bauer, literally "farmer" but also meaning "jack." Euchre is therefore the game for which the joker was invented-the joker being, in effect, a glorified jack

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