right bower
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right bower (plural right bowers)
- (euchre) The jack of the trump suit, the highest card in the game except the joker.
- 1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James:
- But the hands that were played / By that heathen Chinee, / And the points that he made, / Were quite frightful to see,— / Till at last he put down a right bower, / Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.