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sevens

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sevens [ˈsɛvənz]
n
(Team Sports / Rugby) (functioning as singular) a Rugby Union match or series of matches played with seven players on each side
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Noun1.sevenssevens - a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
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card game, cards - a game played with playing cards


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Well, whatever you do, if he's a lazy good-for-nought, everything'll be at sixes and sevens.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
And I with a family vault under that there church of Kingsbere as big as Squire Jollard's ale-cellar, and my folk lying there in sixes and sevens, as genuine county bones and marrow as any recorded in history.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
The coach rumbled up to the piazza of the tavern, followed by a thousand people; for if any man had been minding his own business till then, he now left it at sixes and sevens, to hear the news.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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