"face card" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-face card.wav 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 (playing card with a face): 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, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 93 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 93 7 Topics: card-games, games Disambiguation of 'playing card with a face': 93 7
  2. (Internet slang) A person’s perpetually attractive face. Tags: Internet
    Sense id: en-face_card-en-noun-aiFbmETk

Inflected forms

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