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poker1 definition

☆ poker (pō′kər)

noun

a card game in which the players bet on the value of their hands (of five cards), the bets forming a pool to be taken by the player who remains after all others have dropped out of the betting or who holds the highest hand: there are several varieties

Etymology: < ? Ger pochspiel, lit., game of defiance < pochen, to defy, orig., to push (< MHG bochen, puchen, akin to LowG poken, poke) + spiel, game

poker2 definition

poker (pō′kər)

noun

  1. a person or thing that pokes
  2. a rod, usually of iron, for stirring a fire

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poker Synonyms

poker

n.

  1. A fire iron

    fireplace implement, fire-stirrer, metal bar, iron rod; see iron 1.

  2. A gambling game].

    Varieties of poker include: draw, straight, bluff, stud, five-card stud, lowball, blind, whisky, jack pot, table stake, strip;


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poker Usage Examples

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Modifies a noun

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Noun used with modifier

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poker quotes

A man who was alleged to have the rigidity of a poker without its occasional warmth.

-Stockton

There issuch a thing as luck.There issuch a thing as a run of luck. This is an instructive insight I have gained from pokeröthat all things have a rhythm, even the most seemingly inanimate of statistics.

-Mamet, David Alan

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

-Mamet, David Alan

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