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noun
A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To deceive or outwit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: five hundred
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: card game, cards
History
Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
