Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) to swindle, trick or cheat.

1855		Pioneer Nov. 319: Smith [...] got ‘one-eye’ Brown to play cards with him, slipped upon the blind side of him and euchred him! [DA].
1857		The **** Club Poor of N.Y. Act III: What are you up to? You want to fix him – to try some game to euchre me.
1861		G.W. Harris ‘Sut Lovingood Lands Old Abe’ Nashville Union and American XXV March in Inge (ed.) (1967) 280: How many tavrins yu either dodg’d ur ‘euchred’.
1870		B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp (1873) 65: Tennessee smiled, showed his white teeth, and, saying, ‘Euchred, old man!’ held out his hand.
1880		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 25 Sept. 12: [pic. caption] Consarn My Skin If I Don’t Euchre Him at that Game.
1881		N.Z. Observer (Auckland) 15 Jan. 169/2: His wife had euchred him, and he had to pay the money.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Jul. 14/4: You’ve euchred the Old Lad, Poll Cott, / And very badly too, / If ever he was ‘had,’ Poll Cott, / He has been had by you; / He held you in his mesh, Poll Cott, / He thought, beyond a doubt; / You’ve tipped him something fresh, Poll Cott, / By deftly wriggling out!
1889		‘Jack the Ripper’ letter July in Evans & Skinner Jack the Ripper (2001) 272: He euchred a male [sic] of mine and so I am going to stick him and others.
1890		Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Aug. 19/2: To the Bogan back I’m going as soon as e’er I can, / And I’ll ne’er again be euchred by that shark, Cigar Divan.
1891		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 24 Jan. 6/2: [headline] euchred popper and mommer.
1902		Ade Forty Modern Fables 68: Eighteen Months later the steady old Partner with the Snowy Locks had him euchred down to the Clothes on his Back.
1905		Sun. Times (Perth) 31 Dec. 4/8: Lord be praised I’ve euchred Iky an the Derby and the Cup.
1906		S. Ford Shorty McCabe 81: They euchered him out of his castle and building lots.
1912		E. Pugh City Of The World 319: As he was in those roaring times when he euchred Bill Nye.
1913		Truth (Sydney) 14 Sept. 10/3: Wimmen allers was born gamblers, / Going reckless for the loot / Since the day when Eve was euchred / On that deal in Dead Sea Fruit.
1923		‘Sapper’ Jim Maitland (1953) 30: I think, old son [...] that we have euchred the dear Baron.
1949		Chicago Trib. 15 Feb. 11/1: The belief that the British have euchred them out of the Marshall plan [DA].
1977		Ben-Veniste & Frampton Stonewall 155: [E]ither he had euchered [sic] us, the Congress and the American public in a daring gamble or he was merely buying time.
1986		hearings before US Congressional House Committee on the Judiciary 1344: Today you said that EF Hutton ‘euchred the banks.’ I haven’t heard that term in a long time.
1991		R. Szold Ginzberg Children and Other Strangers 33: I guess I was indeed euchred, but I wanted to be euchred, if that was necessary, to believe in the essential goodness of the US of A and its leaders.
2002		J. Myers Doc Holliday 188: Served with his own type of political deal, Sheriff Behan had been cold-decked and euchred.

2. to destroy.

1977

(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 137: It was that Maleme joint goin’ euchred us all [...] Jerry just piled stuff in, motor cycle troops, mountain guns, light tanks, the lot. We never had a look in after that.