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pedro|ˈpɛdrəʊ|
Also with capital initial.
[f. Sancho Pedro, the name of a U.S. card game.]
a. A variant of the card game Sancho Pedro in which the sancho, or nine of trumps, does not count.
b. The name for the five of trumps in such games. Cf. cinch n. 3.
1874Reno (Nevada) Crescent 8 May 2/3 The five of trumps is ‘pedro’. 1876Avalanche (Silver City, Idaho) 15 Mar. 2/3 Whist, pedro, pool.., etc., seem to be flourishing pastimes. 1880W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle (ed. 13) 210 Pedro may be taken with any trump higher than the Five. 1929R. S. & H. M. Lynd Middletown 281 The growing rigidity of the social system today is centering parties more and more upon cards, pedro among the workers and bridge among the others. 1944A. H. Morehead Pocket Bk. Games 199 Auction Pitch has many variants. Most of them—Pedro, Pedro Sancho, Dom Pedro, Snoozer—have been swallowed up by their own ultimate creation, Cinch. 1947Sat. Even. Post 17 May 102/3 He operates a pedro game. |