freezeout
or freeze-out
[freez-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.
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Origin of freezeout
1850–55, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase freeze out
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That is what will arouse you at dawnand other timeswhile we are on the march to Freezeout.
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Perhaps we are not alone in having an interest in this Freezeout place.
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Now, Tommy, weve just got to get to Freezeout Camp 66 some way.
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What in tarnation takes you way into them mountains to Freezeout?
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Had the two come to Freezeout Camp, and were they lingering about the vicinity now?
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