1) All four limbs or extremities 2) English card game
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All Fours, also known as High-Low-Jack or Seven Up, is an English tavern trick-taking card game that was popular as a gambling game until the end of the 19th century. It is the eponymous and earliest recorded game in a family that flourished most in 19th century North America, notable other members being Auction Pitch, Pedro and Cinch, which compe...
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• All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person.
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ancestor of a family of card games dating back to 17th-century England and first mentioned in The Complete Gamester of Charles Cotton in 1674. The ...
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All` fours' [ formerly, All` four' .] All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be , go , or run , on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond ( with ) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered.
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All fours is a game at cards, which derives its name from the four chances of which it consists, for each of which a point is scored. These chances are high, or the ace of trumps, or next best trump out; low, or the deuce of trumps, or next lowest trump out; jack, or the knave of trumps; game, the majority of pips collected from the tricks taken by...
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[
n] - card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
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high-low-jack noun card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
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all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours. · Also calleda game for two or three players or two partnerships in which a 52-card pack is used, the object being to win special scoring values for the hi...
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