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• four flush
  four flush

  noun

  a hand having four cards of one suit and one card of another suit; an imperfect flush.
• four-flush
  four-flush

  verb (used without object)

  to bluff.

four flush

¹ American  

noun

Poker.

1. a hand having four cards of one suit and one card of another suit; an imperfect flush.

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four-flush ² American  

[fawr-fluhsh, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌflʌʃ, ˈfoʊr- /

verb (used without object)

1. to bluff.

2. Poker. to bluff on the basis of a four flush.

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four flush British  

noun

1. a useless poker hand, containing four of a suit and one odd card

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verb

1. to bid confidently on a poor hand such as a four flush

2. a slang word for bluff 1

Etymology

Origin of four flush¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Origin of four-flush²

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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four flush four-flush

"It's a four flush," declared one old fellow, hotly.

From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland

Mr. Gus Johnson, who had a four flush and very little prudence, came in.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder

I hear a lot of four flush about what men are willing to do.

From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland

"It's me to go back to trainin' four flush comers again," says I, when he'd gone.

From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson

He felt as he used to feel when under the student lamp in his college room he had calculated the chances of filling a bobtail straight as against a four flush.

From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train

It’s a case of four aces or a four-flush, and no intermediate stations.

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick

I felt like I'd opened up a jack-pot on a four-flush, but Pinckney and the rest seemed to be having a good time, so I stuck it out.

From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson

Playing a four-flush gives a man control of his face and voice.

From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips

“Anybody that would bet a four-flush against two aces in sight, the way you did when Billy won that three-thousand-dollar pot from you, ought never to play anything stronger than ping-pong for the cigarettes.”

From Young Wallingford by George Randolph Chester

Then, too, we're all tagged and labelled like cans of salmon with the price-mark on—we can't four-flush.

From The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Ellingwood Beach

Related Words

• contradict
• contravene
• counterfeit
• deceive
• distort
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