four-flusher

Meanings

nounfour-flusher (plural four-flushers)

CanadaUSslangA lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one.
That four-flusher shoot himself? Not a chance.
1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, New York: Knopf, →OL

nouna person who tries to bluff other people

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From the practice of attempting to pass off four cards of the same suit, and a fifth of perhaps the same color, as a flush in poker.

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