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Nap

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To go nap. To stake all the winnings on the cards in hand; hence, to risk all on one venture. Nap is a game of cards; so called from Napoleon III.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Name-son
Name the Day
Names
Names of the Puritans
Nancy
Nancy of the Vale
Nankeen
Nanna
Nannie
Nantes
Nap
Nap (A)
Naphtha
Napier’s Bones
Napoleon III
Napping
Nappy Ale
Naraka
Narcissa
Narcissus (The)
Nardac