euchre

English

Etymology

Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker + Spiel (“game”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈjuːkəɹ/

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Noun

euchre (countable and uncountable, plural euchres)

  1. (card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.

Translations

Verb

euchre (third-person singular simple present euchres, present participle euchring, simple past and past participle euchred)

  1. To deceive or outwit.
    • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
      Well: he guesses They have euchred Mexico into some such Byzantine exercise, probably to do with the Americans. Perhaps the Russians.

References
  1. 2008, The Penguin Book of Card Games, David Parlett, Penguin UK, →ISBN, text here.
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