euchre

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/ˈjuːkəɹ/

noun

A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.

Similar
five hundred
OriginGerman Juckerspiel →
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Meanings

nouneuchre (countable and uncountable, plural euchres)

plural euchres · alternative dated eucre

  1. countableuncountablecard gamesA trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
verbeuchre (third-person singular simple present euchres, present participle euchring, simple past and past participle euchred)

present singular third person euchres · participle present euchring · participle past euchred · past euchred · alternative dated eucre

  1. To deceive or outwit.

    Well: he guesses They have euchred Mexico into some such Byzantine exercise, probably to do with the Americans. Perhaps the Russians.

    1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand

Similar
five hundred
Broader
card gamecards
Also see
five hundred

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. GermanJuckerspiel
  2. Englisheuchre

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

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Translations

Finnish euchre
  • euchrea card game
Māori uka
  • ukaa card game
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APA

euchre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/euchre

MLA

“euchre.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/euchre. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “euchre,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/euchre.

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