euchre : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: euchre	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for euchre
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
euchre n a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand Synonym(s): euchre, five hundred
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Euchre \Eu"chre\, v. t. 1. To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump. 2. To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [Slang.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Euchre \Eu"chre\, n. [Perh. from F. [82]cart[82].] A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See {Bower}.