four-flush

four flush

noun Poker.
a hand having four cards of one suit and one card of another suit; an imperfect flush.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism

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four-flush

[fawr-fluhsh, fohr-]
verb (used without object)
1.
to bluff.
2.
Poker. to bluff on the basis of a four flush.

Origin:
1895–1900, Americanism
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