Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./US) exhausted, destitute, faulty, defeated, finished.

1861		R.H. Newell Orpheus C. Kerr I 79: My breath comes hard — I’m euchred, boy— / First Families must die.
1867		G.E. Clark Seven Years of a Sailor’s Life 95: I told you, old fellow, you would get euchred in the long run.
1868		H.L. Williams Steel Safe 28: Sold, done, euchred, deadest kind of broke, loto’d, lop’d, bluffed, cut up! By jinks, somebody’s got to pay for this!
1870		C.G. Leland ‘Steinli von Slang’ in Hans Breitmann in Church 137: Boot if von ding you do, I’ll knock under, / Our droples moost enden damit; / Und if you pull troo it, – by donder / I’ll own myself euchred und bit.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Mar. 18/4: What’s that you say? She’s married! / The little girl I love! / And you are Mary’s husband! – / – I’m euchred straight, by Jove!
1889		K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 135: [heading] The Conspirators are Euchred.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 27: Euchered [sic], deceived.
1897		Wkly Messenger (St Martinville, LA) 15 May 1/2: Both were euchred out when fairly and legally elected.
1899		Wkly Messenger (St Martinville, LA) 18 Feb. 1/4: The Louisiana Senator had been euchred by the Republicans.
1901		W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 1 Dec. 1/1: The euchred Yid will find the ballot box harder to beat than the Barristers Board.
1901		N. Platte Semi-Wkly Tribune (NE) 21 June 1/4: Two strangers, card sharpers, euchred a farmer near there out of $2,500.
1910		Bulletin (Sydney) 21 July 44/1: Oh Lord, Jerry, we’re done fur – fair euchred!
1926		Morn. Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 11 Feb. 9/5: [headline] Euchred. The Sydney Committee of the Seamen’s Union [...] has been outmanoeuvred by the Victorian offiocials in its attempt to inspect the books.
1961		B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 92: Let’s try this thing [a gun] out on a target. Looks to me as if she might be euchred.
1968		S. Gore Holy Smoke 86: It’s where to finish that might have a man euchred.
1983		R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 27: Euchered Tired.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.