Meanings
plural suicide kings
- slangcard gamesA king of hearts in a deck of playing cards.
When Henry played poker, he liked to declare suicide kings wild, as he felt it lent him an air of sophistication.
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Bayr laid the card down on top of the cowboy's. “Suicide king,” he said softly, touching the king of hearts' sword with his forefinger.
2008 April 30, Connie Bailey, “Fancy Pants”, in Know When to Hold'em: A Dreamspinner Press Anthology, Frisco: Dreamspinner Press, →ISBN, page 115Synonyms: king of hearts
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA king of hearts in a deck of playing cards.
Origin
So called because the king of hearts appears to be stabbing himself in the head with his sword in English pattern playing cards.
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