The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Boston \Bos"ton\, n.
   A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of
   fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston,
   Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the
   French army in America during the Revolutionary war.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Boston
    n 1: state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major
         center for banking and financial services [syn: Boston,
         Hub of the Universe, Bean Town, Beantown, capital of
         Massachusetts]