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Seven-up   /sˈɛvən-əp/   Listen
Seven-up

noun
1.
A form of all fours in which a total of seven points is game.  Synonym: old sledge.






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"Seven-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... sent to the penitentiary, there is a great opening for you as a promoter of a trust in the air we breathe. We shall have to part company. My reputation is dear to me. I have never turned a jack from the bottom when I had one to go in seven-up, and to associate with a boy who will rope people to buy mouldy gum, and be an advance agent of prosperity as recorded on a slot machine, is too much, and I bid you good-bye. I have loved you, but it was because ...
— Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy - 1899 • George W. Peck

... Southton farmer living "over east," as that portion of the town was designated, invited all the young people in the vicinity to his annual husking-bee, every one knew that a good time was in store. Card-playing was considered a vice in those days, and limited to a few games of "seven-up," played by sinful boys on a hay-mow, and dancing was frowned upon by the churches. On the outskirts of the town a few of the younger people occasionally indulged in the crime of taking steps to music as a change from the pious freedom of kissing parties. ...
— Pocket Island - A Story of Country Life in New England • Charles Clark Munn



Words linked to "Seven-up" :   high-low-jack, old sledge, all fours



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