poker

Meanings

Plural: pokers

Noun

• fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire
• any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand
• A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
• A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
• One who pokes.
• A kind of duck, the pochard.
• A knife.
• 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.
• All the four cards of the same rank.
• [a player's] scoring four goals in one match
• Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

Verb

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

Synonyms

bassy, cheffer, chete, ching, fire hook, fire pike, firestick, haul, jook, jooker, nank, poker, poker game, pokey, rambo, salamander, shank, splash, splasher, stoker, stove poker, wetter, ying

Related Words

act (poker), flush, four of a kind, full house, high card, pair, royal flush, straight, straight flush, three card brag, three of a kind, two pair, when the chips are down