"briefs" Definition

Definitions for the word "briefs" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. slang
cards constructed on a cheating principle. See BRIDGE, CONCAVES and CONVEXES, LONGS, and SHORTS, REFLECTORS, &c. From the _German_, BRIEFE, which Baron Heinecken says was the name given to the cards manufactured at Ulm. BRIEF is also the synonym for a card in the German _Rothwälsch_ dialect, and BRIEFEN to play at cards. “Item—beware of the Joners, (gamblers,) who practice Beseflery with the BRIEF, (cheating at cards,) who deal falsely and cut one for the other, cheat with Boglein and spies, pick one BRIEF from the ground, and another from a cupboard,” &c.—_Liber Vagatorum_, ed. by Martin Luther, in 1529. English translation, by J. C. Hotten, 1860, p. 47. _See_ BREEF.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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