おいちょかぶ

Japanese

Etymology

Compound of オイチョ (oicho, “the 8 card”) +‎ カブ (kabu, “the 9 card”), borrowed from Portuguese oito (“eight”) and Portuguese cabo (“end”, for being the highest card) respectively.

Noun

おいちょかぶ • (oichokabu) 

1. (card games) Oicho-kabu (a Japanese card game similar to baccarat, where the goal is to achieve a hand scoring as close to 9 points as possible)