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Meanings of seven-up in English

A form of all fours in which a total of seven points is game.

Usage of seven-up in English
1
Let's have a little game of seven-up, and pass the time profitably.
Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 27, October 1, 1870
2
They found the switch crew in the engine of the cab playing seven-up.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
3
How'd you like to play a game or two of seven-up?
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
4
Several were playing seven-up with an old pack of cards.
The Road
5
Cooley and Marion Clark, both devoted to the card game of "seven-up."
Mormon Settlement in Arizona / A Record of Peaceful Conquest of ...
6
Kennicott played seven-up with the conductor and two brakemen.
Main Street
7
High-low-jack, sometimes called all-fours or seven-up, everlasting and old maid were the chief games of cards.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
8
He wanted to play seven-up for it.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
9
He made himself a pack of cards from birch bark, and taught Neewak the way to play seven-up.
The Faith of Men
10
Harris finds the patient Joe playing seven-up with a couple of friends, and his pistols on the table.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
11
Poker and seven-up were his favorite.
The Second William Penn / A true account of incidents that happe...
12
Poker and seven-up, and a vain modern expense for soap, unknown to your glorious ancestors, have depleted your purses.
Sketches New and Old
13
So one evening I challenged him to play seven-up for the mine, the loser to take his outfit and walk.
Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories
14
I have seen him give parties two points in casino and seven-up, and they would play marked cards on him.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
15
Frequently Maxwell and Carson would play the game of seven-up for hours at a time, seated at one of the tables.
The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway
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At noon the foul ogre cribbage stalks rampant, and seven-up for dim, distant oysters that only the eye of faith can see.
Rolling Stones
Frequent collocations
Seven-up through the time