euchre

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a card game for two to four players, usually played with a reduced deck and a trump suit

   After supper, she taught the visitors to play euchre.

2. 2
   verb

   informal: to deceive, outwit, or cheat someone

   The hidden fee euchred customers out of the discount they expected.

Probably from German Juckerspiel, the name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game. The game's highest trumps, called bowers, helped give rise to joker; the verb meaning 'outwit or cheat' developed in American English from defeating an opponent at euchre.

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