poker

poker

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English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From poke +‎ -er.

Noun

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.
  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
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.

Further reading

  • Fireplace poker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.
  4. (soccer, rare) [a player's] scoring four goals in one match
    Synonym: haul
    • 2021 September 20, Ratul Ghosh, "THE BEST MOMENTS FROM JIMMY GREAVES' LEGENDARY FOOTBALLING CAREER FootTheBall
      Greaves hit three hat-tricks, two pokers and five goals against West Brom on his way to a record-setting 41 league goals.
    • 2022 April 17, Dylan Butler, "Recap: NYCFC 6, Real Salt Lake 0" MLS.com
      Poker Face: Taty Castellanos strikes FOUR times for NYCFC vs. RSL
    • 2023 January 24, Chris Wright, "Mbappe scored career-high five goals in one game. What about Messi, Ronaldo and world's other top strikers?" Toe Poke (ESPN)
      Ibra has scored a "poker" on four separate occasions during his career: twice with Paris Saint-Germain and twice for Sweden. The most famed example must surely be his single-handed crushing of England in a friendly back in 2012, when the striker rounded off a 4-2 victory for the Swedes with a truly immense long-range overhead kick in the final minute.
    • 2023 April 6, "THE 11TH HAT TRICK SCORER AT NOU CAMP" International Federation of Football History and Statistics:
      The only player who scored a poker at Nou Camp is Milinko Pantić. Curiously, despite his 4 goals, his team (Atlético Madrid) lost the game.
    • 2023 April 30, "Europa League's fastest goals and quickest hat-tricks" UEFA
      Daka also became only the fifth player to score four or more in a Europa League match, and the second fastest after Willian José, whose 'poker' came in the space of 26 minutes for Real Sociedad at Vardar in 2017.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • when the chips are down
Descendants
Translations
See also
  • three card brag

Verb

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

  1. To play poker.

Further reading

  • Poker (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

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

Noun

poker (plural pokers)

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

References

Anagrams

  • Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poker/ [po.ker]
  • Rhymes: -oker, -er
  • Hyphenation: po‧ker

Etymology 1

Noun

poker inan

  1. (Northern) belch
    Synonyms: korrokada, korroskada
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

poker inan

  1. poker
Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “poker”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • “poker”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

poker m inan

  1. poker

Declension

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpoˀɡʌ]

Noun

poker c (singular definite pokeren, not used in plural form)

  1. (card games) poker

Declension

Derived terms

  • pokerspil
  • pokeransigt
  • pokerspiller
  • pokerfjæs
  • strippoker

See also

References

  • “poker” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpoː.kər/
  • Hyphenation: po‧ker
  • Rhymes: -oːkər

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English poker, perhaps from the first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque.

Noun

poker n (uncountable)

  1. poker (card game)

Etymology 2

From poken +‎ -er.

Noun

poker m (plural pokers, diminutive pokertje n)

  1. somebody who pokes a fire

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

poker

  1. inflection of pokeren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Anagrams

  • koper, krope

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔ.kɛʁ/

Noun

poker m (plural pokers)

  1. (card games) poker

Further reading

  • “poker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Alternative forms

  • pocher (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

poker m (invariable)

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

Derived terms

References

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.kɛr/
  • Rhymes: -ɔkɛr
  • Syllabification: po‧ker

Noun

poker m inan

  1. poker
  2. straight flush
    poker królewski ― royal flush

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

poker m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of pôquer
  2. Alternative spelling of póquer

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pòker m (Cyrillic spelling по̀кер)

  1. poker (card game)

Declension

References

  • “poker”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pòːkər/

Noun

pọ́kər m inan

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

See also

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

poker (definite accusative pokeri, plural pokerler)

  1. poker

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “poker”, in Turkish dictionaries, 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

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