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- Dictionaryeuchre/ˈjuːkə/
noun
- 1. a North American card game for two to four players, played with the thirty-two highest cards, the aim being to win at least three of the five tricks played.
verb
- 1. (in euchre) gain the advantage over (another player) by preventing them from taking three tricks.
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Euchre or eucre ( / ˈjuːkər / YU-kər) is a trick-taking card game commonly played in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and the Midwestern United States. It is played with a deck of 24, 25, 28, or 32 standard playing cards. There are normally four players, two on each team, although there are variations for two to nine players.
Euchre is a card game for four players that is played in tricks, or rounds, with a deck of 32 cards. Etymologists aren't sure where we got the name for the game, though they do know that it first appeared in English in the mid-19th century.
Euchre definition: a game played by two, three, or four persons, usually with the 32, but sometimes with the 28 or 24, highest cards in the pack.. See examples of EUCHRE used in a sentence.
Euchre, card game popular in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Great Britain, especially in Cornwall and the West Country of England. It derives from a 19th-century Alsatian game called juckerspiel from the fact that its two top trumps are Jucker, meaning “jack.”
1. A card game usually played with a deck of 24 cards in which each player is dealt 5 cards and the team or player calling trump must win at least three tricks to score points for the hand. 2. The act of euchring an opponent. tr.v. eu·chred, eu·chring, eu·chres. 1. To prevent (an opponent) from taking three tricks in euchre. 2.
Definitions of euchre. noun. 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. synonyms: five hundred. see more.
noun. 1. a US and Canadian card game similar to écarté for two to four players, using a poker pack with joker. 2. an instance of euchring another player, preventing them from making their contracted tricks. verb (transitive) 3. to prevent (a player) from making their contracted tricks.
