poker

Speech parts

1. poker - Noun

2. poker - Verb

Meaning

That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.

A poking-stick.

The poachard.

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.

Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

poker game salamander card game stud poker draw poker fire iron gambling game fire hook straight poker stove poker kitchener euchre lotto whist stoker
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Antonyms

eager enthusiastic passionate anxious earnest

Hypernyms

cards card game fire iron

Hyponyms

draw stud high-low penny ante stud poker strip poker

Phrases with the word

by the holy poker as stiff as a poker stove poker chinese poker irish poker open face chinese poker

Anagrams

proke Koper Perko Repko porek

Examples

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. Steven Wright

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. Vannevar Bush

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. Elizabeth Gilbert

The shovel scouts the poker. French Proverb

The shovel insults the poker. Russian Proverb

Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. Traditional Proverb

Close letter words and terms

pokeloken Pokemon Pokemon Goer poker alumroot poker chip poker chips