sheephead

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English

Noun

sheephead (uncountable)

  1. (card games) Alternative form of sheepshead
    • 2014, R. L. Sterup, Close to the Edge Down By the River:
      When they retreated to the shade of a picnic table to swill lemonade or iced tea a cousin from the Dakotas showed them the finer points of sheephead, a card game of ancient vintage, not the actual beast's cranium. She picked it up right away.

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