"face card" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: face cards [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} face card (plural face cards)
  1. (US, card games) A playing card with a face, properly a jack, queen, or king but (inexact, sometimes proscribed) sometimes also an ace or joker. Tags: US Categories (topical): Card games Synonyms: court card, paint, monkey Translations (Translations): kuvakortti (Finnish), фигура (figura) [feminine] (Russian), klätt kort [neuter] (Swedish), målare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-face_card-en-noun-naHX3NFp Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Topics: card-games, games Disambiguation of 'Translations': 76 24
  2. (Internet slang) A person’s perpetually attractive face. Tags: Internet
    Sense id: en-face_card-en-noun-aiFbmETk

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for face card meaning in English (2.3kB)

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