单词 | twenty-fives |
释义 | > as lemmastwenty-fives 2. Cards (also twenty-fives): A variety of spoil-five n. at spoil- comb. form , in which the ‘game’ or winning score is twenty-five: cf. forty-five n. b, jink n.1 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > spoil-five spoil-five1839 spoiled five1842 twenty-fives1870 1870 ‘Cavendish’ (title) The Pocket Guide to Spoil-Five, Twenty-Five and Forty-Five. 1891 ‘Professor Hoffmann’ Cycl. Card & Table Games i. 248 A player making all five tricks is said to make a ‘jink,’ and wins the game, whether at twenty-five or forty-five. 1904 Longman's Mag. June 142 They produced an old pack of cards and played twentyfives. < as lemmas |
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