euchre

English

Alternative forms

• eucre (dated)

Etymology

Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːkəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -uːkəɹ

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)
• Finnish: euchre
• Maori: uka

Verb

euchre (third-person singular simple present euchres, present participle euchring, simple past and past participle euchred)

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.