freezeout

or freeze-out

[ freez-out ]

nounPoker.
  1. a game in which each player begins with a predetermined amount of money and must withdraw from the game once that amount is lost, until one player is left with all the winnings.

Origin of freezeout

1
1850–55, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase freeze out

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How to use freezeout in a sentence

  • "That's enough," said Warble, inattentively, and she danced down stairs to freeze out her caller.

    Ptomaine Street | Carolyn Wells
  • Harry, who she had loved, and whom she thought loved her, had given her the cold freeze-out.

    Hookers | Richard F. Mann
  • The minute a man tries to break the ice with this little lady, it's a freeze-out.

  • Sometimes there were poker games, usually freeze-out, which the men played with plug tobacco cut up into small cubes.

    The Prairie Schooner | William Francis Hooker
  • I foresee that nobody will be willing to practice the 'freeze-out' on an innocent man, passing fair, if he is a substitute.

British Dictionary definitions for freeze out

freeze out

verb
  1. (tr, adverb) informal to force out or exclude, as by unfriendly behaviour, boycotting, etc

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Other Idioms and Phrases with freezeout

freezeout

Shut out or exclude by unfriendly treatment; force to retire or withdraw from membership, a job, or the like. For example, They tried to freeze me out of the conversation, or After Bill was frozen out of the case, they hired a new lawyer. [Mid-1800s]

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