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9 Words and Phrases from Card Games
9 Words and Phrases from Card Games
Shuffle up and deal.
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“Lurch.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lurching. Accessed 22 November 2019.
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