Univ. slang. = VINGT-UN.
1853. ‘C. Bede,’ Verdant Green, xi. ‘Van John’ was the favourite game.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., iii. We were playing Van John in Blake’s rooms till three last night.
1887. Darwin, Life & Lett., I. 157. A little of Gibbon’s History in the morning, and a good deal of Van John in the evening.
