forty-fives

noun, a card game in which each trick counts five and the game is forty-five (“forty-five, n.” OED)

“They’d play forty-fives every chance they got.”

“There was a dance or something, eh, and there’d be a couple of tables of forty-fives going in there.”

“I used to play forty-fives. I haven’t played it since I was a kid though. They had forty-fives here. Every day they played at the township garage, right across from our house. Oh, all the old timers would be there.”

“So it was like — someone outside of Massachusetts plays forty-fives!”
“Oh yeah. They used to have forty-fives here.”

“There was card games probably, eh?”
“Yeah, used to be a lot of that.”
“Euchre, or?”
“Yeah, forty-fives.”
“Ah! You know forty-fives?”