poker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who pokes.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   A knife.

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

3. 3
   verb

   To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.

   The King continued pokering the fire with his back to the door, and took no notice of Lord Chesterfield.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

   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.

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque. First appeared in the 19th century.

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