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poker

UK /ˈpəʊkə/US /ˈpoʊkɚ/

noun 10
verb 2
forms 3
phrases 1

noun10

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a card game played in rounds of adding money, which goes to whoever has the best cards
- As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg. — 2014
A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
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One who pokes.
- The guy next to him poked him in the ribs and said, “Check out the bazongas on this one!” Lee pivoted toward the rib poker and found himself looking straight into the face of Romeo Bouchard. — 2012
All the four cards of the same rank.
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(rare) The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.
- Greaves hit three hat-tricks, two pokers and five goals against West Brom on his way to a record-setting 41 league goals. — 2021
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(slang) A knife.
- Key sense with the super-soaker Longest poker, leave man stressed like yoga — 2020
(historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
A kind of duck, the pochard.
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(US, informal) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
- The very leaves on the horse-chesnuts[…]cling to the bough as if old poker was coming to take them away. — 1784
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(slang, no longer used) A bedel (who carries a silver mace).
- On seats with velvet lined, / Sat Heads of Houses in a row, / And Deans and College Dons below, / With a Poker or two behind. — 1841

verb2

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To play poker.
- Then we went to Mead's and pokered until morning. — 1929
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To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
- The King continued pokering the fire with his back to the door, and took no notice of Lord Chesterfield. — 1796

forms

pokered · pokering · pokers

Phrases with poker

poker up
To become expressionless; to put on a poker face.

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