three-up

English

Noun

three-up (uncountable)

(gambling) A gambling game played with three coins.
c.1880: a low gambling game by tossing up three pennies or other coins and crying to them — The Detectives' Handbook, published in Australia. Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI, end of section 3, page 247.

Translations

gambling game

Northern Guiyang Hmong: mentira

See also

two-up

Anagrams

up there

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