four-flusher
See also: fourflusher
English
Alternative forms
- fourflusher
Etymology
From the practice of attempting to pass off four cards of the same suit, and a fifth of perhaps the same color, as a flush in poker.
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Noun
four-flusher (plural four-flushers)
- (slang, Canada, US) A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one.
- 1929, Hammett, Dashiell, Red Harvest, New York: Knopf, OL 6727215M:
- That four-flusher shoot himself? Not a chance.
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