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four-flusher
four-flush (fôr′flŭsh′)intr.v. four-flushed, four-flush·ing, four-flush·es 1. Games To bluff in poker with a four flush.2. Slang To make empty claims; bluff.
four′-flush′er n.four-flusher (ˈfɔːˌflʌʃə) nslang US and Canadian a person who bluffs or attempts to deceiveThesaurus| Noun | 1. | four-flusher - a person who tries to bluff other peopleblufferbeguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true |
four-flusher
four-flusherOne who deceives or bluffs. The phrase comes from poker, in which a "four-flush" is a meaningless hand. (One needs five, not four, cards of the same suit in order to have a flush.) You can't believe a word that fool says—he's a real four-flusher.four-flusher n. a cheater. Bruno is a lousy four-flusher, among other unpleasant things. four-flusherA fraud, a bluffer. To hold a four flush in poker is to have four cards of the same suit but not the fifth card that would make a potentially winning hand. Since four of a suit is worthless, a “four-flusher” is gambling that you'll believe her or she has the goods or the right stuff. The suggestion that a four-flusher is so full of crap that getting all of it down the toilet will take four pulls of the handle is an imaginative but incorrect derivation of the phrase.four-flusher
Synonyms for four-flushernoun a person who tries to bluff other peopleSynonymsRelated Words- beguiler
- cheater
- deceiver
- trickster
- slicker
- cheat
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