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gambling(encyclopedia)
gambling(dictionary)
Gambling(law)
Gambling money(finance)
Women and Gambling(casino)
River Gambling - Poker(gambling)
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Dummy(health)

California - Poker (gambling) and dummy(1) (iou)


California - Poker (gambling)


A form of Poker found only in Home Games, a widow game in which each player receives five cards face down, as does a central area of the table, followed by a round of Betting, and then the dealer turns up each central card, one at a time, each followed by another round of Betting. At the showdown, each player uses the best five cards among his five and those of the widow. The game is often played high-low split. Also called Utah, Lamebrains, or California. Southern Cross is a variant of Cincinnati.

dummy(1) (iou)



dummy noun & adjective. Also dumby. L16.
[from DUMB adjective + -Y6.]
A. noun.
A person who cannot speak. colloq. L16.
b. (A beggar who pretends to be) a deaf-mute. L19.
a. Whist. A hand dealt to an imaginary fourth player which is turned up and played by one of the Other players as partner; (a game played with) this imaginary player. M18.
b. Bridge. The partner of the declarer, whose cards are exposed after the first lead; this player's hand. L19.
A stupid person, a blockhead. L18.
New Yorker You've just been had, dummy.
A person taking no real part or present only for appearances, a figurehead; a person who is merely a tool of another; Austral. History one who buys land on behalf of another (not entitled to buy it). M19.
D. Bagley Our..corporation might have caught a tiger by the tailFavel is no one's dummy.
An object serving to replace the genuine or usual one; a substitute, an imitation; a counterfeit. M19.
R. V. Jones The warhead was a dummy made of concrete. P. Parish Half the patients are given the true drug, half are given the dummy.
b. spec. A model of a human body to hang or display clothes on; a (usu. adjustable) model of a human torso to fit clothes on. Also dress-maker's dummy, tailor's dummy. M19.
c. A set of sheets of paper made up to resemble a book etc.; a mock-up of a newspaper etc. M19.
d. A model of a human body used as a target in shooting or bayonet practice or in safety tests for vehicles etc. L19.
e. A teat of rubber, plastic, etc., given to a baby to suck as a comforter. E20.
f. In Football and Other Games, a feigned pass or kick intended to deceive an opponent. E20.
g. A model of a person or animal made by a ventriloquist to appear to talk etc. Also ventriloquist's dummy. M20.
h. Computing. An instruction or sequence of data that merely occupies space. M20.
A barge, vehicle, etc., with no means of propulsion. M19.
Phrases: double dummy: see DOUBLE adjective & adverb. dressmaker's dummy: see sense 5b above. in dummy in dummy form. sell a dummy (to), sell the dummy (to) in Football and Other Games, deceive (an opponent) by a feigned pass or kick. tailor's dummy: see sense 5b above. ventriloquist's dummy: see sense 5g above.
b. attrib. or as adjective. That is a dummy, of the Nature of a dummy; counterfeit, sham. M19.
Special collocations & comb.: dummy run a practice, a trial run, a rehearsal. dummy teat, dummy tit a baby's dummy (see sense A.5e above).