Meaning of Poker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
   US, colloquial
3. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
4. All the four cards of the same rank.
   countable, uncountable
5. A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
   historical
6. The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.
   countable, rare, uncountable
7. One who pokes.
8. A kind of duck, the pochard.
9. A knife.
   Multicultural-London-English, slang

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Examples

“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.”

“Key sense with the super-soaker Longest poker, leave man stressed like yoga”

“There is that guy that does with the pokings I step with my poker Play, cuz right, you might get folded”

“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.”

“Greaves hit three hat-tricks, two pokers and five goals against West Brom on his way to a record-setting 41 league goals.”

“Poker Face: Taty Castellanos strikes FOUR times for NYCFC vs. RSL”

“Ibra has scored a "poker" on four separate occasions during his career: twice with Paris Saint-Germain and twice for Sweden. The most famed example must surely be his single-handed crushing of England in a friendly back in 2012, when the striker rounded off a 4-2 victory for the Swedes with a truly immense long-range overhead kick in the final minute.”

“The only player who scored a poker at Nou Camp is Milinko Pantić. Curiously, despite his 4 goals, his team (Atlético Madrid) lost the game.”

“Daka also became only the fifth player to score four or more in a Europa League match, and the second fastest after Willian José, whose 'poker' came in the space of 26 minutes for Real Sociedad at Vardar in 2017.”

“The very leaves on the horse-chesnuts[…]cling to the bough as if old poker was coming to take them away.”

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