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Beggar-my-neighbour

noun
1.
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



... offered to play beggar-my-neighbour for his soul, Aristide would have agreed; especially after the large whisky and soda and the Mumm Cordon Rouge and the Napoleon brandy which Eugene Miller had insisted on his drinking ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

... 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



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