euchre

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A card game played usually with the highest 32 cards, in which each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making the trump is required to take at least 3 tricks to win.
2. n. The act of euchring an opponent.
3. v. To prevent (an opponent) from taking 3 tricks in euchre.
4. v. To deceive by sly or underhand means; cheat: euchred us out of our life savings.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A game of cards played by two, three, or four persons with the 32, 28, or 24 highest cards of the pack. Five cards are dealt to each player, two and then three at a time, or three and then two, and one to mark trumps is turned face up; the eldest hand has the right either of ordering this card into the dealer's hand, who discards another, and then playing the game, or of “passing”—that is, doing nothing; likewise the second and third hands if more than two play; should all pass, the dealer can take up into his hand the trump card, or can pass, which he does by turning down the card which had been turned face up; if the latter, the eldest hand either names a new suit as trumps, the game being then played through, or passes again. Should he pass, the second hand, the third hand, and the dealer in turn have the same right of naming the trump or passing. If all pass on this second round, then a new deal is made by the hand next in order. In playing the hands, each player throws one card, following suit if possible, and the highest card takes the trick; the winning of three tricks counts one, of five tricks two; should a player on one side order up, take up, or name the trump and fail to secure at least three tricks, that side is euchred, and its opponent scores two. The cards rank from ace through king, queen, etc., to the lowest card used, except in trumps, where the knave, known as the right bower, is the highest, and the other knave of the same color, or left bower, is the next highest. Sometimes an additional card, called the joker, which is the highest of all the cards, is used, the game being then known as railroad euchre.
2. n. The winning of at least three tricks in a hand, in a game of euchre, from the side which makes the trump: as, that is a euchre.
3. In the game of euchre, to win a hand over, when an opponent has ordered up, taken up, or named the trump, thus securing two points; hence, to turn the tables on; defeat; get the better of. See the noun.

Wiktionary

1. n. card games A game played with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
2. v. To deceive.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See bower.
2. v. To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.
3. v. Slang. To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. 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