right bower

noun

The jack of the trump suit, the highest card in the game except the joker.

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Meanings

nounright bower (plural right bowers)

plural right bowers

  1. The jack of the trump suit, the highest card in the game except the joker.

    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.

    1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James
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