four-flusher

See also: fourflusher

English

Alternative forms

fourflusher

Etymology

From the practice of attempting to pass off four cards of the same suit, and a fifth of perhaps the same color, as a flush in poker.

Noun

four-flusher (plural four-flushers)

(slang, Canada, US) A lowly, disreputable cheat or fraudster, especially at cards, especially a dull or unimaginative one.
- 1929, Hammett, Dashiell, Red Harvest, New York: Knopf, OL 6727215M:
  That four-flusher shoot himself? Not a chance.

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