Poker is a card game that people usually play in order to win money.
Lon and I play in the same weekly poker game.
2. countable noun
A poker is a metal bar which you use to move coal or wood in a fire in order to make it burn better.
He took up the poker and stirred at the little fire burning beside him.
poker in British English1
(ˈpəʊkə)
noun
1.
a metal rod, usually with a handle, for stirring a fire
2.
a person or thing that pokes
poker in British English2
(ˈpəʊkə)
noun
a card game of bluff and skill in which bets are made on the hands dealt, the highest-ranking hand (containing the most valuable combinations of sequences and sets of cards) winning the pool
Word origin
C19: probably from French poque similar card game
poker in American English1
(ˈpoʊkər)
US
noun
a card game in which the players bet on the value of their hands (of five cards), the bets forming a pool to be taken by the player who remains after all others have dropped out of the betting or who holds the highest hand: there are several varieties
see also draw poker, stud poker
Word origin
< ? Ger pochspiel, lit., game of defiance < pochen, to defy, orig., to push (< MHG bochen, puchen, akin to LowG poken, poke1) + spiel, game
poker in American English2
(ˈpoʊkər)
noun
1.
a person or thing that pokes
2.
a rod, usually of iron, for stirring a fire
Examples of 'poker' in a sentence
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Pals said he was a martial arts expert who liked online poker.
The Sun (2016)
He has the original poker face.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Where people and families are cards in a poker game, those are not my values.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There are better times to be playing international poker than when the pound keeps hitting fresh 31-year lows.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You would not wish to play poker against him.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The warning cast a shadow over internet poker offerings planned for the following months.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Put on your poker face and do not be provoked.
The Sun (2016)
He would be a good poker player.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The company also offers online poker and casino games.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The growth of global online poker is slowing and the industry is more competitive.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He has the best hand in the poker game.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Playing online is the best way to learn how to play poker well.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In business a "poker face "can be very useful.
Harris, Jean Everything You Need to Know for Success in Business (1990)
Do poker players have an obligation to entertain?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Tender battles resemble a complex game of poker.
Charles A. D'Ambrosio & Stewart D. Hodges & Richard Brealey & Stewart Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (1991)
One idea is to launch an online poker site.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But he played a terrific hand of poker.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
My son says that playing poker is more about being with friends than about winning.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Has the internet poker bubble burst?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She has a fantastic poker face.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Such tactics are for a different table - the poker table.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I knew he liked playing poker on the internet but thought he lost a couple of quid a week.
The Sun (2006)
My aunt used to heat a long steel poker in the fire until it was red-hot and put it right down the hollow stem to ripen them.
Max Arthur Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who WereThere (2006)
Word lists with
poker
card games
In other languages
poker
British English: poker /ˈpəʊkə/ NOUN
Poker is a card game that people usually play in order to win money.
We play in a weekly poker game.
American English: poker
Arabic: لُعبَة البُوكَر
Brazilian Portuguese: pôquer fogo
Chinese: 扑克牌
Croatian: poker
Czech: poker
Danish: poker
Dutch: poker
European Spanish: póquer
Finnish: hiilihanko
French: poker
German: Schürhaken
Greek: πόκερ
Italian: attizzatoio
Japanese: 火かき棒
Korean: 부지깽이
Norwegian: ildrake
Polish: pogrzebacz
European Portuguese: atiçador fogo
Romanian: poker
Russian: покер
Latin American Spanish: póquer
Swedish: poker
Thai: ไพ่โป๊กเกอร์
Turkish: poker
Ukrainian: покер
Vietnamese: bài poke
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All related terms of 'poker'
gas poker
a long tubular gas burner used to kindle a fire
draw poker
a variant of poker in which players are dealt a full hand before the first betting round
poker dice
a dice marked on its six faces with the pictures of the playing cards from ace to nine
poker face
A poker face is an expression on your face that shows none of your feelings .
poker-faced
If you are poker-faced , you have a calm expression on your face which shows none of your thoughts or feelings .
strip poker
a card game in which a player's losses are paid by removing an article of clothing
stud poker
a variety of poker in which the first card is dealt face down before each player and the next four are dealt face up ( five-card stud ) or in which the first two cards and the last card are dealt face down and the intervening four cards are dealt face up ( seven-card stud ), with bets made after each round
poker machine
a fruit machine
red-hot poker
any plant of the perennial southern African genus Kniphofia , some species of which are cultivated for their conical spikes of bright red or yellow drooping tubular flowers: family Liliaceae