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strip-Jack-naked

strip-Jack-naked

9.9
A simple card game for two players where one player tries to win all the other player's cards
  • noun
  • UK
translation icon : strip-Jack-naked
  • He taught his younger sister how to play strip-Jack-naked with a deck of cards.

Examples

  • The children played strip-Jack-naked for hours on a rainy afternoon.

  • Do you want to play strip-Jack-naked tonight?

  • Strip-Jack-naked is an easy way to introduce kids to the rules of card games.

  • Let's play strip-Jack-naked!

  • The children played strip-Jack-naked to practice their card skills and have fun.

  • On a rainy day, we decided to play strip-Jack-naked to pass the time.

  • He explained the rules of strip-Jack-naked before we started the game.

Synonyms

beggar-my-neighbor
vsstrip-Jack-naked
9.7

A two-player card game where each player tries to win all the other player's cards

is the same game but described as simple for two players

Surface Forms

strip-Jack-naked singular
strip-Jack-naked plural

Morphology

strip-Jack-naked = strip + jack + naked (opaque) = strip + Jack + naked

The phrase is an idiomatic name for a specific card game and its meaning cannot be directly derived from the component words.

Etymology

Strip-Jack-naked probably comes from the simple card game of the same name. In the name, strip means 'take away', Jack is the playing card, and naked means 'left alone', so the game's idea is to take someone's cards until one player wins them all.