Nope, it’s not time for Lady Gaga, but it is time for some card game terms from page 653 of the book I Never Knew There Was a Word for It, by Adam Jacot de Boinod.
· crimp: to bend one or more cards so that a cheat will be able to cut the deck as he wishes, or to know that an innocent player will be cutting the deck at the same desired card
· flag–flying: to make an overbid that will almost inevitably fail, just to liven up the game
· hop: a secret move made after the cut which puts the card back in the original position and negates that cut for the cheat’s benefit
· motown: a poker hand consisting of “jacks-on-fives”
· pone: the player who cuts the cards
· runt: a poker hand worth less than a pair
· there’s work down: the announcement by one player that someone somehow is cheating
· vole: the winning by one player of all the tricks of a deal: a grand-slam
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