Noun: newmarket
- A long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century
"The costume designer created an authentic newmarket for the period drama set in Victorian England"
- A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in their hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
"They spent the evening playing Newmarket with their neighbours";
- Michigan, Chicago, boodle, stops
Derived forms: Newmarkets, newmarkets
Type of: card game, cards, coat
Encyclopedia: Newmarket, ON