crazy eights
English
Noun
- A card game in which players try to rid themselves of their cards by playing a matching rank or suit on the previous card played, having to draw an additional card if unable to do this; a player who plays an eight can dictate the suit to be played next.
- 2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven
- We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.
- 2004, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven
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