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fourflusher
Aug. 14th, 2024 07:41 amfourflusher or four-flusher (FAWR-fluhsh-er, FOHR-fluhsh-er) - (N.A.) n., a person who makes false claims; a cheat, a fraudster.
With connotations of not a good cheat. Often, and originally, someone cheating at cards: the original sense is someone who attempts to pass off four cards of the same suit in a five-card poker hand as a flush. An Americanism dating from around 1900 -- the verb four-flush, meaning attempting to pass off such a hand, is attested from around 1895.
---L.
With connotations of not a good cheat. Often, and originally, someone cheating at cards: the original sense is someone who attempts to pass off four cards of the same suit in a five-card poker hand as a flush. An Americanism dating from around 1900 -- the verb four-flush, meaning attempting to pass off such a hand, is attested from around 1895.
---L.
