SEVENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sevens mean? 

• SEVENS (noun)
  The noun SEVENS has 1 sense:

1. a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

  Familiarity information: SEVENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fantan; parliament; sevens

Hypernyms ("sevens" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

 Context examples 

Don't cry any more. —And I am sure we never had a word of difference respecting it, except when Mr. Copperfield objected to my threes and fives being too much like each other, or to my putting curly tails to my sevens and nines, resumed my mother in another burst, and breaking down again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For similar reasons I made no allusion to the skirmishing plates upon the floor; or to the disreputable appearance of the castors, which were all at sixes and sevens, and looked drunk; or to the further blockade of Traddles by wandering vegetable dishes and jugs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)