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freeze-out U.S.
[freeze v. 7.]
1. In full freeze-out poker. A variety of the game of poker in which the players, as fast as they lose their staked capital, drop out, all the money going to the player last remaining.
1856Butte Record (Oroville, Calif.) 25 Oct. 1/6 He was..playing ‘freeze-out’ for the whiskey. 1877Harper's Monthly Oct. 799 (Bartlett), They doant do nuthin' but drink whiskey and play frease aout poker. 1889Farmer Americanisms s.v., In freeze-out poker..no player, when his money is exhausted, can borrow, or continue in the game on credit under any circumstances. 1907B. Tarkington His own People iv. 61 I'll put it up against that tin automobile of yours, divide chips even and play you freeze-out for it. 1945R. W. Service Ploughman 214 I'll play you for one of them there geese. Stud poker or freeze out.
2. An act of ‘freezing’ or forcing out.
1883[J. Hay] Bread-winners (U.S.) 144 They organized a freeze-out against him. 1904F. Lynde Grafters xiv. 190 By that time enough of the stock will have changed hands..and the freeze-out will be a fact accomplished. |