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euchre
[ yoo-ker ]
noun
- 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.
- an instance of euchring or being euchred.
verb (used with object)
- 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.
- Slang. to cheat; swindle.
euchre
/ ˈjuːkə /
noun
- a US and Canadian card game similar to écarté for two to four players, using a poker pack with joker
- an instance of euchring another player, preventing him from making his contracted tricks
verb
- to prevent (a player) from making his contracted tricks
- informal.usually foll by out to outwit or cheat
- informal.to ruin or exhaust
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Example Sentences
Art handed us a deck of cards and a piece of chalk to keep score and we started to play euchre.
Euchre doesn't seem the same without a barful of people, and pinochle is not the game that Stein is good at.
Euchre (ūkėr), a card-game very popular in America, is usually played by two or four persons.
Now and then there is a horse-race, but for the most part we play euchre.
Progressive Bridge may be played in much the same manner as Progressive Euchre.
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