A*bove"board` (#), adv.

Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception.

"Fair and aboveboard."

Burke.

⇒ This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands under the table.

 

© Webster 1913.

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