poker

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊkə/

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• 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.]

   Synonyms: firestick, stoker, (obsolete) fire pike

2. (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
3. One who pokes.
   • 2012, Johnny Meah, Risk: No Eulogy for Tin Soldiers, page 40:

     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.

4. A kind of duck, the pochard.
5. (MLE, slang) A knife.

   Synonyms: jook, jooker, ching, ying, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, shank, nank, splash, splasher, cheffer, wetter

   • 2020 August 7, Kaygrab x D1 (lyrics and music), “Rapid”‎, 1:18–1:21:

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

   • 2021 March 6, Mloose (BG) (lyrics and music), “Real As Hell”‎, 0:58–1:02:

     There is that guy that does with the pokings
     I step with my poker
     Play, cuz right, you might get folded

• blow poke

poker (third-person singular simple present pokers, present participle pokering, simple past and past participle pokered)

1. To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
   • 1796 July, “The Late Lord Chesterfield”, in The Aberdeen Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 70:

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

   • 1939, Norah Gourlie, A Winter with Finnish Lapps, page 68:

     The lids have very pleasant designs pokered on with a hot needle.

   • 1988, Robin Jenkins, Guests of War, page 246:

     When she was gone Bell was afflicted by a mood that had her moving round the room, holding on to the yellow curtain, standing over her girls, stroking the sails of the model yacht, opening the drawer and looking at the broken brooch, pokering the fire, and shifting the kettle's position on the hearth.

• 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

1. 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. [from earlier 19th c.]
2. (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.

• poker chip
• poker face
• poker-faced
• poker up
• strip poker

• when the chips are down

• three card brag

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

poker (third-person singular simple present pokers, present participle pokering, simple past and past participle pokered)

1. To play poker.
   • 1929, West Virginia Wild Life, page 38:

     Then we went to Mead's and pokered until morning.

   • 1969, Emma Wilson Emery, Aunt Puss & Others: Old Days in the Piney Woods, page 94:

     Papa liked nothing better than a game of poker . His pokering habits caused Mama grave anxiety.

   • 1992, Vance H. Trimble, The Astonishing Mr. Scripps, page 56:

     "He ran with and pokered with us boys,” Bob Paine would recall fifty years later, “ the darndest, pepperyest, finest companion a fellow could ask.”

   • 2017, Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen, Stay:

     “Yeah,” Lemming mutters. “We're pokering, so shut the fuck up.” “I raise five,” Blake announces.

• 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[1].
   • 5 May 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to Hon. H. S. Conway:

     The very leaves on the horse-chesnuts […] cling to the bough as if old poker was coming to take them away.

• Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

poker

1. belch

Borrowed from English poker.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpokr̩]
• Hyphenation: po‧ker

poker m inan

1. poker

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.kər/

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• Hyphenation: po‧ker
• Rhymes: -oːkər

Borrowed from English poker, perhaps from the 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 corresponding lemma form.

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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pocher (rare)

Borrowed from English poker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ker/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔker
• Hyphenation: pò‧ker

poker m (invariable)

1. (card games) poker
2. (card games, poker) four of a kind
3. (metonymically, uncountable) the act of playing poker
4. (metonymically) a game of poker

• poker in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from English poker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.kɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɔkɛr
• Syllabification: po‧ker

poker m inan

1. poker
2. straight flush

   poker królewski ― royal flush

• poker in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• poker in Polish dictionaries at PWN

poker m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of pôquer

For quotations using 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

• IPA^(key): /pòːkər/

pọ́kər m inan

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

From Ottoman Turkish پوكر‎ (poker), from English poker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.cæɾ/, /-cɛɾ/
• Hyphenation: po‧ker

poker (definite accusative pokeri, plural pokerler)

1. poker

• poker in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “poker”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “poker”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı