slapjack
Americannoun
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a simple card game.
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a flapjack or griddlecake.
noun
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a simple card game
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another word for pancake
Regionalisms
See pancake.
Etymology
Origin of slapjack
Example Sentences
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"It's the difference between playing slapjack and playing bridge."
From Time Magazine Archive
Three old men played a game of slapjack in a corner.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
He remembered the narrow white beds and the old men playing slapjack in the corner.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
His second visit to his friend was like the first, except that the old men in the room watched them listlessly and did not play slapjack.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Can any one wonder at my early words, "A slapjack may be the last plank between the woodsman and starvation"?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
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