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Definition of Seven-up
1. Noun. A form of all fours in which a total of seven points is game.
Definition of Seven-up
1. Noun. A children's game in which players with their eyes shut try to guess which of a group of seven people pressed down their thumbs. ¹
2. Noun. (card games) A card game similar to all fours. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seven-up
Literary usage of Seven-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Smith of Bear City: And Other Frontier Sketches by George Tower Buffum (1906)
"... Seven Up and Life or Death 1 HERE was a moment's lull in the dance- music and
the shuffle of feet ceased for a little. It was not for long—so little ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1856 Songs and shouts and terrible stoups of liquor were employed to relieve "
seven-up " and other gambling games. —WG Simms, ' Eutaw,' p. 407 (NY). ..."
3. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"... seven-up, OR OLD SLEDGE. CARDS. seven-up is played with the full pack of
fifty-two cards, which rank AKQJ ..."
4. Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together with Numerous Anecdotes by Charles Anthony Shriner (1918)
"The prosecuting attorney, in framing the indictments, alternately charged the
defendants with playing a certain game of cards called seven-up, and in the ..."
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