Poker Meaning And Synonyms

noun

• A metal rod with a handle, used for prodding and stirring an open fire.

  ‘You will tell them that most nights you just sit home chewing on white-hot pokers straight from the fire.’

  • ‘We could not produce blue-prints or mould metal pokers in the forge.’
  • ‘Soldiers also use pokers and metal detectors, digging deeper earth to locate the mines.’
  • ‘We all dove for the marshmallows and impaled them to the end of out metal pokers.’
  • ‘He painted their necks and faces with red paint to simulate blood and held knives, pokers and even daggers to their throats.’
  • ‘Fireplace pokers and knives should be stored out of sight.’
  • ‘Leave the knives and hot pokers out of it, is my advice.’
  • ‘So I propose no system of ‘rules’ to be imposed (with hot pokers in the eyes, no less, according to the hysterical Mr. Butler!) on anybody.’
  • ‘Transition Year students at the school have been following a course in metalwork and engineering, creating projects such as brass door pulls and doorknockers, and fireside pokers.’
  • ‘Perhaps the perpetrators should be rounded up and branded with hot pokers with the insignia ‘BIGOT’ on their forehead to see how they like it.’
  • ‘It's the jokers who cover over the ashes with hot pokers stemmed from their own rebuttal, sitting around the cold coal fire in my living room, bunting one another with harsh words.’
  • ‘Baseball bats, garden rakes, fireside pokers, wrenches and planks of wood were seized as Gardaí battled desperately to bring the riot under control.’
  • ‘And if we were able to do that, then we might win Popper's argument for him - without having to resort to pokers.’
  • ‘Baseball bats, fireside pokers, wrenches and garden rakes were seized by Gardaí.’
  • ‘Tongs, pokers and even smoothing irons were used, apart from fists, boots and belts.’
  • ‘Some versions even have Popper and Wittgenstein duelling with a pair of pokers.’
  • ‘I'm sure makes sense to the chap in the corner with the red hot pokers on his feet.’
  • ‘He had attended parties, and he had been impaled with hot pokers, and between the two, the hot pokers still held a narrow lead.’
  • ‘The audio track is without obvious flaw, and we hear every dying scream, sizzle of hot pokers, and swoosh of descending swords with great clarity and resonance.’

(ˈpoʊkɝ) Any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand. Definition of spoker in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of spoker. What does spoker mean? Information and translations of spoker in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

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noun

• A card game played by two or more people who bet on the value of the hands dealt to them. A player wins the pool either by having the highest combination at the showdown or by forcing all opponents to concede without a showing of the hand, sometimes by means of bluff.

  ‘I do not know of any state that has passed a law stating that players can play poker online.’

  • ‘Also, to refuse to fold when a player knows that he or she is beat is stubbornness, not poker.’
  • ‘To succeed at the top levels of poker you need your head, your heart and your groin to be able to take it.’
  • ‘You simply cannot put in all that many hours in a year playing major tournament poker.’
  • ‘After this the men may separate for gin rummy or poker, leaving the women alone to their gossip.’
  • ‘Play is the same manner as poker, high score wins the pot, and players are allowed to fold if the betting gets too much for them.’
  • ‘At the start of the game each player must pay a small fee, like in poker.’
  • ‘However, when you introduce the concept of betting, poker gains quite a bit of skill and psychology.’
  • ‘Winning poker is all about revenue streams, a few big ones and many, many small ones.’
  • ‘In poker, you need to know when you can count on someone behind you to bet for you.’
  • ‘Then there are the casino gamblers, who treat poker as an elaborate version of roulette.’
  • ‘Indeed, sitting down to a game of Sheepshead often involves negotiating table rules, much like poker.’
  • ‘The remaining chips for the last hand of the game are played at poker.’
  • ‘It is sometimes said to be similar to poker, but in fact it is much older and the method of betting is different.’
  • ‘The basic idea is to play a game of poker in which the losers have to remove items of clothing.’
  • ‘I was in Amsterdam recently, and went down to play poker at the Holland Casino on Leidseplein.’
  • ‘Bennett also said that he gambles almost entirely on slot machines and video poker.’
  • ‘This is something I do from time to time. My preferred game is poker but last night we played contract whist.’
  • ‘If you have ever played poker before, you will know that every player has a ‘bad beat’ story.’
  • ‘It wasn't pool we were playing but poker and the same principles applied.’

Origin

Mid 19th century of US origin; perhaps related to German pochen ‘to brag’, Pochspiel ‘bragging game’.

'the iron bar with which men stir the fire' [Johnson], 1530s, agent noun from poke (v.). The Middle English pokere (early 12c.) might mean 'one who stores or bags grain' (from poke (n.1)).

poker (n.2)

card game for two or more played with a full pack, 1834, American English, of obscure origin, perhaps from the first element of German Pochspiel, name of a card game similar to poker, from pochen 'to brag as a bluff,' literally 'to knock, rap' (see poke (v.)). A popular alternative theory traces the word to French poque, also said to have been a card game resembling poker. '[B]ut without documentation these explanations are mere speculation' [Barnhart]. The earlier version of the game in English was called brag.

The game itself originated apparently by 1829, according to later reminiscences, in and around the lower Mississippi region, perhaps among riverboat gamblers. The original form seems to have been played with a 20-card pack (A-K-Q-J-10) evenly dealt among four players; the full-deck version was played by the 1840s.

Slang poker face (n.) 'deadpan' is from 1874.

A good player is cautious or bold by turns, according to his estimate of the capacities of his adversaries, and to the impression he wants to make on them. 7. It follows that the possession of a good poker face is an advantage. No one who has any pretensions to good play will betray the value of his hand by gesture, change of countenance, or any other symptom. ['Cavendish,' 'Round Games at Cards,' dated 1875]

To any one not very well up in these games, some parts of the book are at first sight rather puzzling. 'It follows,' we read in one passage, 'that the possession of a good poker face' (the italics are the author's) 'is an advantage.' If this had been said by a Liverpool rough of his wife, the meaning would have been clear to every one. Cavendish, however, does not seem to be writing especially for Lancashire. [from a review of the above book, Saturday Review, Dec. 26, 1874]

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