Definition of "Sancho"

Sancho

/ˈsænt͡ʃoʊ/

proper noun
1. (card games) The nine of trumps in the game of Sancho Pedro.
2. An assistant or sidekick, from Cervantes’ Sancho Panza.
  Quotations
  “It was my privilege to accompany this hero, as his humble Sancho.”
  1895, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 6, in Crocker’s Hole, Dodd, Mead and Company, paragraph 6