card house

card house noun: a house of cards.

Noun

card house (plural card houses)

A house of cards.
- So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes.1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- And if you look carefully at the card house, you will see that top two cards are aces of clubs.2006, D. B. Smithee, The Dog Poker Code, page 26
A business where patrons play cards.
- He owned a goulash or card house, on upper Broadway, where I got many laughs.1956, Across the Board, page 121
- Feeling surer of his bearings, once he'd strode down to the creek and back again, Longarm quietly entered the noisy card house, drifted to the bar, and ordered a schooner of suds to nurse as he lounged there with one boot on the brass rail and the brim of his Stetson shading his tanned face from...2003, Tabor Evans, Longarm and Town-Taming Tess

Place two of them together on top of the card case as shown in Figure 30 to form the walls of the card house.2009, Karl Fulves, Foolproof Card Tricks for the Amateur Magician, page 71:
So when you walk into a casino or card house, you can expect to find more people playing more varieties of poker more frequently than ever.2004, Scott Tharler, Winning Casino Gambling, page 132:

plural	card houses

What does card house mean?: Card house means a house of cards.
How do you use card house in a sentence?: Place two of them together on top of the card case as shown in Figure 30 to form the walls of the card house.
What part of speech is card house?: Card house is a noun.
What is the plural of card house?: The plural of card house is card houses.

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