Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A card game in which points are scored for the high trump, low trump, jack of trumps, and either the ten of trumps or the most points.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of billiard-pool with fifteen object-balls, based in part on the card game of all-fours: once popular, but now obsolete.
- noun A game of cards: same as
all-fours .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
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Examples
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The other boys in the garrison sneered at him, because he sacrificed in this unrequited affection for a politician the time which they devoted to Monongahela, hazard, and high-low-jack.
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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The only amusement of these men consisted in chewing tobacco in enormous quantities, playing surreptitious games of high-low-jack, in reading the daily paper, a single magazine, and waiting for the sun to enter the barred window, and watching it in the afternoon as it slipped away.
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The other boys in the garrison sneered at him, because he sacrificed in this unrequited affection for a politician the time which they devoted to Monongahela, sledge, and high-low-jack.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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The other boys in the garrison sneered at him, because he sacrificed in this unrequited affection for a politician the time which they devoted to Monongahela, hazard, and high-low-jack.
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We had up a lot of whisky, and went to playing high-low-jack for dimes, and as soon as the whisky begun to take hold of Bud we stopped drinking, but we didn't let him stop.
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They could not understand why Nolan kept by himself while they were playing high-low-jack.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Various 1880
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We had up a lot of whisky, and went to playing high-low-jack for dimes, and as soon as the whisky begun to take hold of Bud we stopped drinking, but we didn't let him stop.
Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain 1872
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They had started an innocent game of high-low-jack and had been stopped.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872
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The other boys in the garrison sneered at him, because he sacrificed in this unrequited affection for a politician the time which they devoted to Monongahela, hazard, and high-low-jack.
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865
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"I used to like high-low-jack, and I could manage to take a hand at euchre without raisin 'too big a disturbance; but I never could learn that bridge and play it with those women friends of yours -- never in this world.
Cap'n Dan's Daughter Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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