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four-flusher en · NOUN

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Etymology

From the practice of attempting to pass off four cards of the same suit, and a fifth of perhaps the same color, as a flush in poker.

Meanings

1. (Canada, US, slang) A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one.
   • That four-flusher shoot himself? Not a chance. 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, New York: Knopf, →OL:

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