euchre
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Etymology
Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
euchre (countable and uncountable, plural euchres)
- (card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
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Verb
euchre (third-person singular simple present euchres, present participle euchring, simple past and past participle euchred)
- 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.