euchre

Etymology

Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”).

noun

  1. (card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.

verb

  1. To deceive or outwit.
    Well: he guesses They have euchred Mexico into some such Byzantine exercise, probably to do with the Americans. Perhaps the Russians. 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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