freezeout
or freeze-out
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
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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 WellsHarry, who she had loved, and whom she thought loved her, had given her the cold freeze-out.
Hookers | Richard F. MannThe minute a man tries to break the ice with this little lady, it's a freeze-out.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 | VariousSometimes there were poker games, usually freeze-out, which the men played with plug tobacco cut up into small cubes.
The Prairie Schooner | William Francis HookerI foresee that nobody will be willing to practice the 'freeze-out' on an innocent man, passing fair, if he is a substitute.
Molly Brown's Senior Days | Nell Speed
British Dictionary definitions for freeze out
(tr, adverb) informal to force out or exclude, as by unfriendly behaviour, boycotting, etc
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with 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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