Meaning & use
Stuss
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A gambling card game resembling faro, historically popular in 19th- and early 20th-century American gambling halls.
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Old newspaper accounts describe backroom games of stuss played for high stakes.
The saloon was known for its late-night stuss tables.
A note on using this word
The name comes from Yiddish "shtuss," and the game was especially associated with Jewish immigrant communities in early 20th-century America.
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