four-flush
Example Sentences
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Duty calls and finds most men holding nothing but a four-flush.
From The Silly Syclopedia by Lott, Noah [pseud.]
Facts have been told showin' a strange an' sudden growth of this here four-flush labor union.
From The Desert of Wheat by Grey, Zane
I felt like I'd opened up a jack-pot on a four-flush, but Pinckney and the rest seemed to be having a good time, so I stuck it out.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
An' don't you always want to meet a real man, not a four-flush?
From The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border by Grey, Zane
“Anybody that would bet a four-flush against two aces in sight, the way you did when Billy won that three-thousand-dollar pot from you, ought never to play anything stronger than ping-pong for the cigarettes.”
From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph
