poker

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊkə/
• Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

poke +‎ -er.

poker (plural pokers)

1. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. [from earlier 16th c.]
2. (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
3. One who pokes.
4. A kind of duck, the pochard.

• (fireplace utensil): firestick, stoker

• Fireplace poker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

poker (plural pokers)

1. Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the 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. [from earlier 19th c.]
2. (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.

• fruit poker
• poker chip
• poker face
• poker-faced
• strip poker

• when the chips are down

Poker hands in English · poker hands (layout · text)
high card	pair	two pair	three of a kind	straight
flush	full house	four of a kind	straight flush	royal flush

• three card brag

• Poker (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Compare Danish pokker (“the deuce, devil”), and English puck.

poker (plural pokers)

1. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

• Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

poker

1. belch

poker m

1. poker

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• Hyphenation: po‧ker

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque

poker n (uncountable)

1. poker (card game)

From poken +‎ -er.

poker m (plural pokers, diminutive pokertje n)

1. somebody who pokes a fire

See the etymology of the main entry.

poker

1. first-person singular present indicative of pokeren
2. imperative of pokeren

• koper, krope

Borrowed from English poker.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.kɛʁ/

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poker m (plural pokers)

1. (card games) poker

• “poker” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English poker.

poker m (invariable)

1. (card games, poker) poker
2. (card games, poker) four of a kind

• pokerino
• pokerista

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.kɛr/

poker m inan

1. (card games) poker
2. straight flush

   poker królewski – royal flush

• pokerowy

poker m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of pôquer

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:pôquer.

Borrowed from English poker.

• IPA^(key): /pǒker/
• Hyphenation: po‧ker

pòker m (Cyrillic spelling по̀кер)

1. poker (card game)

• “poker” in Hrvatski jezični portal

póker m inan (genitive pókra, nominative plural pókri)

1. poker (card game)
2. (poker) four of a kind