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four-flusher

four-flusher noun: a lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one.

Noun

four-flusher (plural four-flushers)

  1. (Canada, US, slang) A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one.
    • That four-flusher shoot himself? Not a chance.1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, New York: Knopf, →OL

Forms of four-flusher

pluralfour-flushers
alternative formfourflusher

Origin of four-flusher

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.

Questions about four-flusher

What does four-flusher mean?
Four-flusher means a lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one.
What part of speech is four-flusher?
Four-flusher is a noun.
What is the plural of four-flusher?
The plural of four-flusher is four-flushers.

Words near four-flusher in the dictionary

  1. four-eyed fishes
  2. four-eyes
  3. four-fifths
  4. four-flush
  5. four-flushed
  6. four-flusher
  7. four-flushers
  8. four-flushes
  9. four-flushing
  10. four-fold
  11. four-foot

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