A card game in which points are won for the high trump, low trump, jack of trumps, and either the ten of trumps or the most points.
Example sentencesExamples
We had up a lot of whisky, and went to playing high-low-jack for dimes, and as soon as the whisky begun to take hold of Bud we stopped drinking, but we didn't let him stop.
He taught my second brother and me the game of high-low-jack; and, with delightful secrecy, as often as we could steal away, we played in the attic, keeping the cards hidden, between whiles, in an old hair trunk.
Definition of high-low-jack in US English:
high-low-jack
noun
A card game in which points are won for the high trump, low trump, jack of trumps, and either the ten of trumps or the most points.
Example sentencesExamples
We had up a lot of whisky, and went to playing high-low-jack for dimes, and as soon as the whisky begun to take hold of Bud we stopped drinking, but we didn't let him stop.
He taught my second brother and me the game of high-low-jack; and, with delightful secrecy, as often as we could steal away, we played in the attic, keeping the cards hidden, between whiles, in an old hair trunk.