Glossary
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Eagles: A fifth suit once including in packs of playing cards, with green eagles as symbols. Similar to Royals.
Echo: In Whist or Bridge, a play of a high card followed by a signal for the partner’s next lead.
Edge: An advantage in the play of a hand, usually held by player at dealer’s left.
Eighty kings: A meld of four kings for 80 points in Pinochle.
Eldest hand: Player at dealer’s left.
End game: In Bridge, plays made with the last few cards.
Endhand: The last player to be dealt cards in Skat.
Enter: To join in bidding or play.
Entry: In trump games, a card strong enough to bring the lead into the player’s hand.
Escalers: A seven-card sequence in Bolivia and other forms of Canasta.
Establish: To gain full control of a suit.
Exposed hand: A hand played face up for a bonus score in certain games, or as a dummy in Bridge.
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Face cards: Kings, Queens, and Jacks.
Faced cards: One turned face upward.
False openers: In Draw Poker, an insufficient combination on which a player falsely opens the pot, as anything less than a pair of jacks, when a pair of jacks or better is required.
Fan: A spread of face-up cards. To spread cards fanwise.
Fatten: To throw counter cards on a trick; also to put more chips in a pool.
Feed: To contribute to a pool, pot, or kitty.
Fifteen: Cards adding to fifteen in Cribbage.
File: A vertical row of cards, especially in Solitaire.
Fill: In Poker, to draw or be dealt cards that "fill" the hand by completing a desired combination.
Fibesse: In partnership play, praticularly in Whist or Bridge, an attempt to win a trick with the lower of two cards, when an opponent is holding one or more of intervening value.
First hand: Either the hand at dealer’s left or the hand that leads to a trick during the course of play.
Fishhook: A nickname for a sevenspot.
Five and Dime, or Five and Ten: A freak Poker hand ten high, five low, with no pair, as 10-9-8-6-5.
Five of a kind: Highest combination in Deuces Wild, in which Q-Q-Q-2-2 would represent Q-Q-Q-Q-Q. The same applies to other types of wild-card Poker.
Five-suit pack: A special sixty-five-card pack with an extra suit-either eagles or royals-that enjoyed brief popularity.
Five-suit poker: Played with a five-suit pack, with five of a kind the highest hand.
Flash: A hand containing a card of each suit in a game of Five-Suit Poker.
Flop: In Poker, a group of common upcards.
Flush: In Poker, a hand with all cards of the same suit, in Pinochle, a trump sequence (A-10-K-Q-J).
Fold: To turn down a hand in Stud Poker.
Follow suit: To play a card of the suit led in games where tricks are taken.
Forcing bid: In contract Bridge, a convetional bid that automatically calls upon a partber to respond. See Demand bid.
Forcing play: To make an opponent use a trump to win a trick; in Canasta, a discard that an opponent is forced to take.
Forehand: The first player to dealer’s left in Skat.
Forty jacks: In Pinochle, a meld of four jacks for 40 points.
Foul hand: A Poker hand that is short of the proper number of cards.
Four flush: Poker hand with four cards of one suit and odd card of another.
Four of a kind: In Poker, a holding of four cards of the same value, as A-A-A-A or 10-10-10-10.
Freak hand: Any very unusual hand, particularly in a trump game.
Freak hands: Special combinations allowable in some Poker games.
Free ride: In Poker, staying in a pot without betting, after other players have checked.
Freeze the pack: To discard a wild card in Canasta, making it more difficult to take up the discard pile.
Full hand: In Poker, the same as a full house.
Full house: A Poker hand consisting of three cards of one value and two of another, as Q-Q-Q-6-6 or 5-5-5-9-9.
Full pack: A regulation pack of fifty-two cards.
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