crazy eights en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) A card game in which players try to rid themselves of their cards by playing a matching rank or suit on the previous card played, having to draw an additional card if unable to do this; a player who plays an eight can dictate the suit to be played next.
We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.
2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven:
Translations (4)
fi seiska (card game) · fi crazy eights (card game) · nl pesten (Mau Mau) (card game) · cmn 瘋狂八分牌 /疯狂八分牌 (card game)