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Meaning of poker-faced | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Wearing a poker face: studiously neutral in facial expression; giving nothing away.

Examples

“John, in his most poker-faced manner, continued to explain the rules.”
“Harold Lloyd had had one or two minor comic brushes with railway trains, but the first man to produce real comedy from locomotives was the great poker-faced clown, Buster Keaton.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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