four-flush
Example Sentences
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He felt as he used to feel when under the student lamp in his college room he had calculated the chances of filling a bobtail straight as against a four flush.
From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny
"It's a four flush," declared one old fellow, hotly.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
Mr. Gus Johnson, who had a four flush and very little prudence, came in.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
"It's me to go back to trainin' four flush comers again," says I, when he'd gone.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
I hear a lot of four flush about what men are willing to do.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.