twenty-one

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

Related topics: Cards

ˌtwenty-ˈone noun [uncountable]  American EnglishDGC a card game, usually played for money 二十一点牌戏〔一种赌博游戏〕 SYN British English pontoon

Examples from the Corpus

twenty-one• Thus, up to age twenty-one, men were charged with the responsibility to prevent conception.• The thought of going from twenty-one to fifty-one is making me nauseous.• She has twenty-one points and eight assists.• In less than three months he shot twenty-one films, most of them using Southern California settings.• Two times ten to the twenty-two, or twenty times ten to the twenty-one.• Soo-Il died in 1934 at the age of eighty-eight, when my father was twenty-one.• Red ends the game with twenty-one points and eleven rebounds, tops in both categories.Origin twenty-one (1700-1800) Translation of French vingt-et-un; from the winning total

ˌtwenty-ˈone nounChineseSyllable  

for a money played game, card usually Corpus

twenty-one
ˌtwenty-ˈone noun [uncountable]American English a card game, usually played for money
   SYN  pontoon British English