beggar my neighbor

/ˈbɛɡər maɪ ˈneɪbər/
noun
  1. A card game in which players try to win all the cards by playing higher cards than their opponent.
    • My grandfather taught me beggar-my-neighbor when I was six.
    • The children spent the rainy afternoon playing beggar-my-neighbor with an old deck of cards.
    • In beggar-my-neighbor, the goal is to collect every card from the other player.
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