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seven-up U.S.
1. The game of all-fours when played for seven ‘chalks’.
1830N.Y. Constellation 11 Sept. 2/5 Some tugged at the bottle,..and some played seven-up. 1845J. J. Hooper Simon Suggs (Bartlett), Simon and Bill were..very earnestly engaged at seven-up. 1847G. F. Ruxton Adv. Mexico xxvii. 245 ‘Euker’, ‘poker’, and ‘seven-up’, the regular mountain-games. 1890L. D'Oyle Notches 47 There sat four ‘cow-punchers’,..playing ‘seven-up’.
2. Seven up. Also Seven-Up, etc., and as 7-Up. The proprietary name of a popular carbonated soft drink.
1928Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 13 Nov. 304/2 ‘Seven Up.’ For carbonated, nonalcoholic, noncereal, maltless beverages sold as soft drinks and syrups, extracts, and flavors used in making the same. 1953Trade Marks Jrnl. 24 June 555/2 Seven-up... Non-alcoholic drinks and preparations for making such drinks, all included in Class 32. 1968N. Fleming Counter Paradise v. 78 Crystal ordered a coffee for herself and a Seven-Up for Jake. 1978Washington Post 5 Sept. 10a/1 Bottles of 7-Up, suddenly the hottest commodity in Egypt. |