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poker

Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊkɚ/

The English word “poker” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
  2. A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
  3. One who pokes.
  4. A kind of duck, the pochard.
  5. A knife.
  6. A bedel (who carries a silver mace).
  7. Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing 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.
  8. All the four cards of the same rank.
  9. The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.
  10. Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

verb

  1. To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
  2. To play poker.

Etymology

From poke + -er.

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