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lowball

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Meaning

  1. adjective Significantly below the actual cost or value.
  2. noun The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop.
  3. noun A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.)
  4. noun A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser.
  5. noun An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass.
  6. noun Clipping of lowball glass.
  7. verb To give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent.
  8. verb To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low.

Similar words

underestimate creep undervalued cheap lowdown underpitched underreported lousy undersize discreditable

Often followed by

offer glass offers technique the bid price draw game

Word family

lowballed lowballing lowballs

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