poker
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
poker (plural pokers)
- A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning log or coals in a fire; a firestick. [from earlier 16th c.]
- (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
- One who poke.
- A kind of duck, the pochard.
- French: tisonnier
- German: Schüreisen, Schürhaken
- Italian: attizzatoio
- Portuguese: atiçador, tiçoeiro
- Russian: кочерга́
- Spanish: atizador
- Portuguese: cutucador
poker (plural pokers)
- Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more round of deal or reveal#Verb|revealing cards, the player in sequence make tactical bet or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard rank#Etymology_2|ranking of hand values for the game. [from earlier 19th c.]
- (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
- when the chips are down
- French: poker
- German: Poker
- Italian: poker
- Portuguese: pôquer, póquer
- Russian: по́кер
- Spanish: póquer, póker
poker (plural pokers)
- (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
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