How to pronounce “lowball”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Significantly below the actual cost or value.
• [Noun]
• The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop.
• (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.)
• A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser.
• An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass.
• Clipping of lowball glass.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent.
• (transitive) To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low.
• (transitive) To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly.

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