Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb Games To bluff in poker with a four flush.
- intransitive verb Slang To make empty claims; bluff.
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- verb To
bluff , especially inpoker
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Examples
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A six of spades came on the turn, giving Stuey a four-flush to go with his pair of fives.
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A six of spades came on the turn, giving Stuey a four-flush to go with his pair of fives.
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A six of spades came on the turn, giving Stuey a four-flush to go with his pair of fives.
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Duty calls and finds most men holding nothing but a four-flush.
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If Mae wouldn't four-flush and act like the Belle of the Moulin Rouge, she'd be the nithest girl you ever met.
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"If Riggs follows me and tries any of his four-flush desperado games he'll have his hands full," said Bo, grimly.
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And I know the West well enough now to be sure that four-flush doesn't belong here and can't last here.
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Now an 'then I caught somethin' like low-down an 'sneak an' four-flush an 'long-haired skunk, but for the most part they was just the cussedest kind of names.
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I want Riggs shown up as the coward, braggart, four-flush that he is.
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An 'every town you ride into will scare up some cowpuncher full of booze or a long-haired four-flush gunman or a sheriff -- an' these men will be playin 'to the crowd an' yellin 'for your blood.
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