freezeout

or freeze-out

[ freez-out ]

/ ˈfrizˌaʊt /

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noun Poker.

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.

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Origin of freezeout

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.
The Best Short Stories of 1917|Various
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.
Molly Brown's Senior Days|Nell Speed

British Dictionary definitions for freezeout

freeze out

verb

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

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