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Definition of euchre in English: euchrenoun ˈjuːkəˈjukər mass nounA North American card game for two to four players, played with the thirty-two highest cards, the aim being to win at least three of the five tricks played. Example sentencesExamples - He's going to have to call my sister ‘Bubble Butt’ and he's going to make lewd gestures at me while we play euchre.
- She saw that Tamara, Juno, Lynn, and Tamika were playing euchre at the patio table… while the others just sat around and let time pass them.
- Because my family's from Indiana, our friend had to learn to play euchre (it's quite similar to a game her family taught me in France, called belote, so she got the hang of it quickly).
- I'm not good at euchre, but I used to be and I know some people who are.
- I don't know how to play euchre but I'm smart so I could learn.
- When I came back I decided to create a game with the cards you don't use in euchre.
- I'm not sure about toys but a good game of poker or euchre can really get the competitive juices flowing before retiring for the night.
- You don't even have to watch it - just let it play over a game of euchre and catch a few snippets.
- In the end euchre had been replaced by poker, the beer by pop, and their enthusiasm by exhaustion.
- And then I'll teach you how to play solitaire euchre.
- Lynn got Tamika, Leeta, and Mimi into playing euchre and the others just sat back, and did their own thing.
- Tonight we're playing euchre, after we played euchre Tuesday night.
- I spent many a sunny afternoon in the smoky darkness of a pool hail in a small central Illinois town where wizened men took my pennies at euchre, gin rummy and poker.
- The men played loud games of cutthroat euchre or pinochle under the trees while the women luxuriated by doing nothing.
- In time, my room became quite the gathering place for gamers with chess and euchre proving most popular at first.
- So, hats off to you Grandad… you're a true hero (and not too bad at kicking my butt at euchre either).
- I spent most of my time there playing euchre, which is the best card game I have ever played.
- That's about the only good thing that has happened today, winning four games of euchre in a row.
- Otherwise, play and scoring are the same as in two-handed euchre.
- They don't look like money; they look like duffers playing euchre on the 19th hole, the way they're kicking back in khakis and golf shirts, one of them scratching his sockless ankle.
verb ˈjuːkəˈjukər [with object]1(in euchre) gain the advantage over (another player) by preventing them from taking three tricks. Example sentencesExamples - The score for winning all the tricks or euchring the makers is 3 points instead of 2.
- Bushing or Waiting in the bushes is passing when you hold enough cards to make trump, hoping instead to euchre the opponent who picks up.
- If you lose a trick you are euchred; and if you get euchred going alone, the deck scores four points.
Synonyms wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo - 1.1North American informal Deceive, outwit, or cheat (someone)
they euchred Congress out of $50 billion Example sentencesExamples - You may recall that he euchred Elizabeth's uncle into visiting a site where his experts said Elizabeth's body could have been found.
- ‘He really euchred me there,’ he says with a grin.
Synonyms deceive, trick, play a trick on, hoax, dupe, take in, mislead, delude, hoodwink, bluff, beguile, gull, make a fool of, outwit - 1.2be euchredAustralian informal Be exhausted or ruined.
Origin Early 19th century: from German dialect Jucker(spiel). Rhymes bazooka, farruca, lucre, palooka, pooka, rebuker, snooker, Stuka, verruca Definition of euchre in US English: euchrenounˈjukərˈyo͞okər A card game for two to four players, usually played with the thirty-two highest cards, the aim being to win at least three of the five tricks played. Example sentencesExamples - Because my family's from Indiana, our friend had to learn to play euchre (it's quite similar to a game her family taught me in France, called belote, so she got the hang of it quickly).
- In time, my room became quite the gathering place for gamers with chess and euchre proving most popular at first.
- She saw that Tamara, Juno, Lynn, and Tamika were playing euchre at the patio table… while the others just sat around and let time pass them.
- I spent many a sunny afternoon in the smoky darkness of a pool hail in a small central Illinois town where wizened men took my pennies at euchre, gin rummy and poker.
- When I came back I decided to create a game with the cards you don't use in euchre.
- And then I'll teach you how to play solitaire euchre.
- I spent most of my time there playing euchre, which is the best card game I have ever played.
- You don't even have to watch it - just let it play over a game of euchre and catch a few snippets.
- They don't look like money; they look like duffers playing euchre on the 19th hole, the way they're kicking back in khakis and golf shirts, one of them scratching his sockless ankle.
- So, hats off to you Grandad… you're a true hero (and not too bad at kicking my butt at euchre either).
- Tonight we're playing euchre, after we played euchre Tuesday night.
- I don't know how to play euchre but I'm smart so I could learn.
- I'm not sure about toys but a good game of poker or euchre can really get the competitive juices flowing before retiring for the night.
- I'm not good at euchre, but I used to be and I know some people who are.
- In the end euchre had been replaced by poker, the beer by pop, and their enthusiasm by exhaustion.
- Otherwise, play and scoring are the same as in two-handed euchre.
- Lynn got Tamika, Leeta, and Mimi into playing euchre and the others just sat back, and did their own thing.
- The men played loud games of cutthroat euchre or pinochle under the trees while the women luxuriated by doing nothing.
- He's going to have to call my sister ‘Bubble Butt’ and he's going to make lewd gestures at me while we play euchre.
- That's about the only good thing that has happened today, winning four games of euchre in a row.
verbˈjukərˈyo͞okər [with object]1(in the card game euchre) gain the advantage over (another player) by preventing them from taking three tricks. Example sentencesExamples - Bushing or Waiting in the bushes is passing when you hold enough cards to make trump, hoping instead to euchre the opponent who picks up.
- The score for winning all the tricks or euchring the makers is 3 points instead of 2.
- If you lose a trick you are euchred; and if you get euchred going alone, the deck scores four points.
Synonyms wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo - 1.1North American informal Deceive, outwit, or cheat (someone)
the merchant can be euchred out of his caftan by hard bargaining Example sentencesExamples - You may recall that he euchred Elizabeth's uncle into visiting a site where his experts said Elizabeth's body could have been found.
- ‘He really euchred me there,’ he says with a grin.
Synonyms deceive, trick, play a trick on, hoax, dupe, take in, mislead, delude, hoodwink, bluff, beguile, gull, make a fool of, outwit
Origin Early 19th century: from German dialect Jucker(spiel). |