-ˈhȯil, -ȯi(ə)l phrasal
Usage: usually capitalized H
Etymology: after Edmond Hoyle †1769 Eng. writer and authority on games, whose treatises, especially on whist (1742), became famous
: in agreement with standard practice or rules : in conformity with accepted usage or with an accepted procedure or system : conventionally
playing the game according to Hoyle
the girl did not behave according to Hoyle — Maude Hutchins