Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A card game requiring seven points to win.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game, the same as
all-fours .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun United States The game of cards called also
all fours , andold sledge .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A children's game in which players with their eyes shut try to guess which of a group of seven people pressed down their
thumbs . - noun this sense) (
card games ) Acard game similar toall fours .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a form of all fours in which a total of seven points is game
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Examples
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He made himself a pack of cards from birch bark, and taught Neewak the way to play seven-up.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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He made himself a pack of cards from birch bark, and taught Neewak the way to play seven-up.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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It was a matter of masculine pride that he should walk with them, and he had done so in fair seeming; but women had remained to him a closed book, and he preferred a game of solo or seven-up any time.
Chapter XII 2010
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Way, way back in the day we used to make a seven-up cake and poke holes in the layers, which we drizzled jello over to fill them.
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Here are the members of our party drinking cold cans of coke and seven-up on the other side of the same open room - the "restaurant".
Archive 2007-04-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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At odd moments there might be a game of seven-up or poker, customarily played for matches on the trail, because there would be no money in their pockets until they reached a shipping town.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Kennicott played seven-up with the conductor and two brakemen.
Main Street 2004
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The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a game.
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For supper they had catfish, and perch, and trout, and seven-up, and euchre, and poker, and when the meal was over Mr.P. went out for a moonlight row upon the lake.
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We saw the United States flag flying from the ramparts, and thought that Yank would probably be asleep or catching lice, or maybe engaged in a game of seven-up.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
ruzuzu commented on the word seven-up
"A game, the same as all-fours." --CD
April 13, 2011
bilby commented on the word seven-up
"Strangely, Jude's dog was happier when walking on its hind legs than on seven-up."
April 13, 2011