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
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"It's me to go back to trainin' four flush comers again," says I, when he'd gone.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
"It's a four flush," declared one old fellow, hotly.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
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 Train, Arthur Cheny
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 Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
I hear a lot of four flush about what men are willing to do.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
Playing a four-flush gives a man control of his face and voice.
From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace
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 Street, Julian
Facts have been told showin' a strange an' sudden growth of this here four-flush labor union.
From The Desert of Wheat by Grey, Zane
Of course she'll four-flush and bluff you if she can, but you don't want to pay any more attention to the old lady than if she was some pelado.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy
And I know the West well enough now to be sure that four-flush doesn't belong here and can't last here.
From The Man of the Forest by Grey, Zane
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