Definitions for chuck-a-luck

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Spelling: [chuhk-uh-luhk]
IPA: /ˈtʃʌk əˌlʌk/

Chuck-A-Luck is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in chuck-a-luck (--accchkkluu).

Definitions for chuck-a-luck

noun

  1. a game played with three dice at which the players bet that a certain number will come up on one die, that the three dice will total a certain number, or that the total will be an odd number, even number, a high number, or a low number.

Origin of chuck-a-luck

An Americanism dating back to 1830-40

Examples for chuck-a-luck

"chuck-a-luck," said Texas, whose ideas of recreation were the gamester's.

chuck-a-luck is one of the fairest of gambling games, when fairly played, which it rarely or never is by a professional gambler.

chuck-a-luck, sweat-cloth, and every species of device for swindling are resorted to by the baser sort.

Hazard, chuck-a-luck and other games of chance were played there.

Bear Creek demanded of an Ishmael who lived precariously by chuck-a-luck.

They have all the different kinds of gambling, from chuck-a-luck at two bits to roulette at a million dollars a minute.

You remember how he cleaned out them Maumee Muskrats at chuck-a-luck last pay-day?

At the other end of the table a party of gamblers, with twenty or thirty spectators, were indulging in "chuck-a-luck."

They lay for you with sole-leather pies, and chuck-a-luck boards and 40-rod whisky, and aid.

chuck-a-luck was strictly prohibited in camp, but it was next to impossible to keep the men from playing it.

Word Value for chuck-a-luck
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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