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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 gameplay

  Familiarity information: HIGH-LOW-JACK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGH-LOW-JACK (noun)


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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