euchre

English

Etymology

Possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker + Spiel (“game”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjuːkəɹ/

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Noun

euchre (countable and uncountable, plural euchres)

1. (card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.

Translations

a card game

• Dzongkha: ཡུ་ཁོད (yu khod)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: uka

Verb

1. 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.