face card
IPA: fˈeɪskˈɑrd
noun
- (US, card games) A playing card with a face, properly a jack, queen, or king but (inexact, sometimes proscribed) sometimes also an ace or joker.
- (Internet slang) A perpetually attractive face of an individual.
Examples of "face-card" in Sentences
- The face-card Bushites may leave office, but the Bushite forces behind them are not going away.
- In Germany, a fourth face-card is sometimes added to the pack, called the Knight, or Chevalier.
- If the face-card lay next beneath the nine - spot, the heaviest wager in Alaska would have been lost; if it still remained hidden on the next turn, the money would be safe for a moment.