Poker

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊkÉ™(r)

{1} + -er.

Full definition of poker

Noun

1. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. from earlier 16th c.
2. One who pokes.
3. A kind of duck, the pochard.

Synonyms

• (fireplace utensil) firestick, stoker

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque

Noun

1. Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets 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 ranking of hand values for the game. from earlier 19th c.
2. (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.

Derived terms

• poker chip
• poker face
• poker-faced

Related terms

• when the chips are down

Compare Danish pokker ("the deuce, devil"), and English puck.

Noun

1. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.