prial
/ˈprʌɪəl
/noun
(In card games) a set of three cards of the same denomination.Poker players should take care to note that a running flush is beaten by a prial in this game, and that the ‘run’ and ‘flush’ in Brag rank in the opposite order to Poker....
- The best is threes, and the other prials follow in the rank order of the cards: A-A-A, K-K-K, Q-Q-Q, etc. down to 5-5 - 5, 4-4 - 4, 2-2 - 2, three twos being the lowest prial.
- At a game of three card brag at work once, I had a prial of threes (top hand) and my opponent had a prial of aces (next highest).
Origin
Early 19th century: alteration of pair royal.
- a slip of a ——
- as long as
- as long as one's (or someone's) arm
- aslope
- a slow burn
- as luck would have it
- ASM
- a smack in the face (or eye)
- (as) mad as a box of frogs
- (as) mad as a gum tree full of galahs
- (as) mad as a hatter
- (as) mad as a March hare
- (as) mad as a meat axe
- a small fortune
- as many
- Asmara
- Asmera
- (as) merry (or lively) as a grig
- as much
- (as) much as
- Asn
- as near as
- as near as dammit (or damn it)
- as near as damn it
- (as) nice (or sweet) as pie