lowball
noun
1. The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop.
2. (poker) 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.)
3. A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser.
4. An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass.
verb
1. make a deliberately low estimate
- The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed
Similar word(s): underestimate
Definition categories: cognition, approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge