four flush
noun
a hand having four cards of one suit and one card of another suit; an imperfect flush.
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four flush
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four-flush
four-flushverb (used without object)to bluff.
four flush
1 Americannoun
Poker.
four-flush
2
American
[fawr-fluhsh, fohr-]
/ ˈfɔrˌflʌʃ, ˈfoʊr- /
verb (used without object)
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to bluff.
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Poker. to bluff on the basis of a four flush.
four flush
British
noun
verb
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to bid confidently on a poor hand such as a four flush
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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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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
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 four flush," declared one old fellow, hotly.
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
I hear a lot of four flush about what men are willing to do.
From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland
An' don't you always want to meet a real man, not a four-flush?
From The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border by Zane Grey
The interviewer, however, finally approved the visitors, stating definitely that "they are Regular Folks and they don't four-flush about anything."
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street
However, it was no difficult thing for one of my calling to tell the difference between a real bad man and the imitation "four-flush."
From The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey
“Come on, boys; we’ll bring up a chunk of money that’ll stop all this four-flush conversation.”
From Young Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
"I'd have thrown him out at first easily if that four-flush third baseman hadn't bumped me," snapped Williams, his pride hurt.
From Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Hugh S. Fullerton
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