"four-flusher" meaning in English

See four-flusher in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-au-four-flusher.ogg [Australia] Forms: four-flushers [plural]
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. Head templates: {{en-noun|head=four-flusher}} four-flusher (plural four-flushers)
  1. (slang, Canada, US) A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one. Tags: Canada, US, slang Categories (topical): Four, People, Poker Synonyms: fourflusher

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for four-flusher meaning in English (2.6kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "four-flushers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "four-flusher"
      },
      "expansion": "four-flusher (plural four-flushers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Four",
          "orig": "en:Four",
          "parents": [
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Poker",
          "orig": "en:Poker",
          "parents": [
            "Card games",
            "Gambling",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, New York: Knopf, →OL",
          "text": "That four-flusher shoot himself? Not a chance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one."
      ],
      "id": "en-four-flusher-en-noun-o6unMxOZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "cheat",
          "cheat#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "fraudster",
          "fraudster"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, Canada, US) A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fourflusher"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-four-flusher.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/En-au-four-flusher.ogg/En-au-four-flusher.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/En-au-four-flusher.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "four-flusher"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "four-flushers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "four-flusher"
      },
      "expansion": "four-flusher (plural four-flushers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Four",
        "en:People",
        "en:Poker"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, New York: Knopf, →OL",
          "text": "That four-flusher shoot himself? Not a chance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "cheat",
          "cheat#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "fraudster",
          "fraudster"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, Canada, US) A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-four-flusher.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/En-au-four-flusher.ogg/En-au-four-flusher.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/En-au-four-flusher.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fourflusher"
    }
  ],
  "word": "four-flusher"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.