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HIGH-LOW-JACK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high-low-jack mean?
• HIGH-LOW-JACK (noun)
The noun HIGH-LOW-JACK has 1 sense:
1. card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
Familiarity information: HIGH-LOW-JACK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
all fours; high-low-jack
Hypernyms ("high-low-jack" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high-low-jack"):
cinch (a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps)
auction pitch; pitch (an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump)
old sledge; seven-up (a form of all fours in which a total of seven points is game)
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