Euchre

Definition: Euchre

Euchre

Noun

1. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "euchre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonym: Euchre

Amusement

Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat.

Success

Defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of court.

Crosswords: Euchre

Books

• Buck euchre : more fun than sex (reference)

• Columbus Book of Euchre (reference)

• Euchre According to Wergin (reference)

• Euchre How to Play and Win (reference)

• Mr. Euchre and Other Northwoods Fables (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Discover Euchre (Yoo'ker) Card Game (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• MVP Euchre [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "euchre": progressive euchre. Additional references.

Albanian

lloj loje letrash. (various references)

Bulgarian 

американска игра на карти. (various references)

Czech

karetní hra (cinch, faro, lansquenet, omber, whist). (various references)

German

übertölpeln (dupe, to dupe, to euchre). (various references)

Greek 

ξεγελώ (bamboozle, bite, deceive, delude, diddle, fake out, have on, hocus, hoodwink, inveigle, juggle, outsmart, outwit, spoof, trick), παιχνίδι χαρτιών. (various references)

Hungarian

amerikai kártyajáték-fajta (pinochle). (various references)

Pig Latin

euchreay

Russian 

род карточной игры. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kartaška igra (auction bridge, baccarat). (various references)

Swedish

lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, entrap, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick), överlista (circumvent, outflank, outfox, outjockey, out-jockey, outsmart, outwit). (various references)

Thai

การเล่นไพ่ชนิ�"หนึ่งมีจำนวนไพ่สูงสุ�" 32 ใบในหนึ่งสำรับ, การป้องกันไม่ให้ผู้เล่นคนอื่นไ�"้ถึง 3 รอบ ซึ่งจะเป็นผู้ชนะในการเล่นไพ่ยูเครอะ, ฉ้อโกง (bilk, diddle out of, gyp), หลอกลวง (betray, cheat, dupe, fake out, fiddle, fool, fox, fudge, gull, hoax, humbug, mountebank), ป้องกันไม่ให้ผู้อื่นเล่นไ�"้ 3 รอบ เพื่อชนะไพ่ยูเครอะ. (various references)

Turkish

kurnazca yenmek, bir kâğıt oyunu (beggar-my-neighbour, omber, ombre), baskın çıkmak (extinguish, preponderate, preponderate over, surpass, talk down, trump). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "euchre": euchred, euchres. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Euchre" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aucharn, aucher, auchlee, Ducharme, Duchrae, Echr, ecure, eichre, enuche, eohr, euch, Euchaeta, eucher, euches, euchore, euchrwe, eucre, euker, eukre, heuchter, Huchra, Puchrrt, pulchri, Uchte, Ukhreeo, Ukhrul. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cheer, ruche.

-2 letters: cere, cure, eche, ecru, here.

-3 letters: cee, cue, cur, ecu, ere, her, hue, rec, ree, rue.

-4 letters: eh, er, he, re, uh.

+1 letter: chequer, euchred, euchres.

+2 letters: cheerful, chequers, fourchee, hercules, quencher, unbreech.

+3 letters: butchered, charmeuse, chequered, chevelure, chuntered, debaucher, exchequer, gaucherie, herculean, hypercube, lecherous, quenchers, rechauffe, retouched, retoucher, retouches, scheduler, sepulcher, sepulchre, squelcher, trebuchet, unreached, upreached, upreaches, vouchered.

+4 letters: butcheries, charmeuses, chartreuse, cheerfully, chemurgies, chequering, cherublike, chevelures, choreguses, cutcheries, debauchers, debauchery, embouchure, eucharises, exchequers, gaucheries, herbaceous, herculeses, huckstered, hyperacute, hypercubes, keypuncher, leprechaun, meerschaum, outreached, outreaches, overmuches, prepunched, prepunches, rechauffes, relaunched, relaunches, repurchase, reschedule, retouchers, schedulers, scouthered, sepulchers, sepulchred, sepulchres, squelchers, squelchier, trebuchets, unbreeched, unbreeches, unenriched.

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