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Beggar-my-neighbour

noun

A card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards. Synonyms: beggar-my-neighbor, strip-Jack-naked.

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"Beggar-my-neighbour" Quotes from Famous Books

... things she had done. There were Stumfoldians who declared that she had been seen through the blinds teaching her own maid piquet on a Sunday afternoon; but any horror will get itself believed nowadays. How could they have known that it was not beggar-my-neighbour? But piquet was named because it is supposed in the Stumfoldian world to be the wickedest ...

— Miss Mackenzie • Anthony Trollope

Words linked to "Beggar-my-neighbour" : strip-Jack-naked, cards, beggar-my-neighbour policy, beggar-my-neighbor, card game