seven-up

American  

[sev-uhn-uhp] / ˈsɛv ənˈʌp /

noun

1. all fours.

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seven-up British  

noun

1. Also called: all fours.   pitch.  a card game in which the lead to each round determines the trump suit

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Etymology

Origin of seven-up

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

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seven-up

Under an unofficial "seven-up, eight-down rule," PSC members who are 68 or older retire during the party congress.

From Reuters ● Oct. 22, 2022

We lay in camp, made political speeches, held sacred concerts, pulled teeth, played baseball and seven-up, and ate our six thousand meals per day, and Des Moines paid for it.

From The Road by Jack London

Now thar ain't a sport from the Knobs of old Knox to the Mississippi who could make seed corn off me at seven-up, an' nacherally I beats old Bender out of the baldface.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton

So one evening I challenged him to play seven-up for the mine, the loser to take his outfit and walk.

From Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Florence Finch Kelly

But Bill was bound to play with somebody, so he picked up a man and gave him two points in seven-up, and they kept at it all day, until Bill lost $1,100.

From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol