noun

Countable a metal stick used for moving the coal or wood of a fire around Synonyms and related words Definition and synonyms of poker from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Education. This is the British English definition of poker. Poker meaning: 1. A game played with cards in which people try to win money from each other 2. A long, thin metal.

• A metal rod with a handle, used for prodding and stirring an open fire.

  ‘You will tell them that most nights you just sit home chewing on white-hot pokers straight from the fire.’

  • ‘We could not produce blue-prints or mould metal pokers in the forge.’
  • ‘Soldiers also use pokers and metal detectors, digging deeper earth to locate the mines.’
  • ‘We all dove for the marshmallows and impaled them to the end of out metal pokers.’
  • ‘He painted their necks and faces with red paint to simulate blood and held knives, pokers and even daggers to their throats.’
  • ‘Fireplace pokers and knives should be stored out of sight.’
  • ‘Leave the knives and hot pokers out of it, is my advice.’
  • ‘So I propose no system of ‘rules’ to be imposed (with hot pokers in the eyes, no less, according to the hysterical Mr. Butler!) on anybody.’
  • ‘Transition Year students at the school have been following a course in metalwork and engineering, creating projects such as brass door pulls and doorknockers, and fireside pokers.’
  • ‘Perhaps the perpetrators should be rounded up and branded with hot pokers with the insignia ‘BIGOT’ on their forehead to see how they like it.’
  • ‘It's the jokers who cover over the ashes with hot pokers stemmed from their own rebuttal, sitting around the cold coal fire in my living room, bunting one another with harsh words.’
  • ‘Baseball bats, garden rakes, fireside pokers, wrenches and planks of wood were seized as Gardaí battled desperately to bring the riot under control.’
  • ‘And if we were able to do that, then we might win Popper's argument for him - without having to resort to pokers.’
  • ‘Baseball bats, fireside pokers, wrenches and garden rakes were seized by Gardaí.’
  • ‘Tongs, pokers and even smoothing irons were used, apart from fists, boots and belts.’
  • ‘Some versions even have Popper and Wittgenstein duelling with a pair of pokers.’
  • ‘I'm sure makes sense to the chap in the corner with the red hot pokers on his feet.’
  • ‘He had attended parties, and he had been impaled with hot pokers, and between the two, the hot pokers still held a narrow lead.’
  • ‘The audio track is without obvious flaw, and we hear every dying scream, sizzle of hot pokers, and swoosh of descending swords with great clarity and resonance.’

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• A card game played by two or more people who bet on the value of the hands dealt to them. A player wins the pool either by having the highest combination at the showdown or by forcing all opponents to concede without a showing of the hand, sometimes by means of bluff.

  ‘I do not know of any state that has passed a law stating that players can play poker online.’

  • ‘Also, to refuse to fold when a player knows that he or she is beat is stubbornness, not poker.’
  • ‘To succeed at the top levels of poker you need your head, your heart and your groin to be able to take it.’
  • ‘You simply cannot put in all that many hours in a year playing major tournament poker.’
  • ‘After this the men may separate for gin rummy or poker, leaving the women alone to their gossip.’
  • ‘Play is the same manner as poker, high score wins the pot, and players are allowed to fold if the betting gets too much for them.’
  • ‘At the start of the game each player must pay a small fee, like in poker.’
  • ‘However, when you introduce the concept of betting, poker gains quite a bit of skill and psychology.’
  • ‘Winning poker is all about revenue streams, a few big ones and many, many small ones.’
  • ‘In poker, you need to know when you can count on someone behind you to bet for you.’
  • ‘Then there are the casino gamblers, who treat poker as an elaborate version of roulette.’
  • ‘Indeed, sitting down to a game of Sheepshead often involves negotiating table rules, much like poker.’
  • ‘The remaining chips for the last hand of the game are played at poker.’
  • ‘It is sometimes said to be similar to poker, but in fact it is much older and the method of betting is different.’
  • ‘The basic idea is to play a game of poker in which the losers have to remove items of clothing.’
  • ‘I was in Amsterdam recently, and went down to play poker at the Holland Casino on Leidseplein.’
  • ‘Bennett also said that he gambles almost entirely on slot machines and video poker.’
  • ‘This is something I do from time to time. My preferred game is poker but last night we played contract whist.’
  • ‘If you have ever played poker before, you will know that every player has a ‘bad beat’ story.’
  • ‘It wasn't pool we were playing but poker and the same principles applied.’

Origin

Poker Meaning And Synonyms Meaning

Mid 19th century of US origin; perhaps related to German pochen ‘to brag’, Pochspiel ‘bragging game’.

Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

Poker Meaning And Synonyms Antonyms

1. Seeing you finally smile at the emptiness, indelible smile on your face. And your terrible laugh in response to any blows and fear that fate grants. She feels powerless over you. You feel the complete absence of fear - this is the acceptance of reality in its true form. 2. The people who created and develop this world: in debt. Sins are debts after death. Sins as a loan taken from a bank of hell. 3. Truth plunges into loneliness. 4. Fate lowered the gun fuse - this is the best lie detector in the world. Take a look at your body, you are only one millimeter away from eternity, her finger on the trigger. Because of problems, your whole life will pass in one second; you will be separated from immortality by only one second. The closer you are to death, the closer you are to the truth that everything in the human world is meaningless because it is temporary.5. A halo of knowledge within life, this is a record of projection, a person who feels reality can feel the universe: the past, present and future, and that which is timeless.6. On the tombstone of a woman who died alone, because she always rejected, repelled, did not forgive, and broke the hearts of all the guys and men who had once offered themselves to her. Her last words were written on her stone: I have been waiting for the perfect man all my life.7. Some harden life, while others only spoil.8. Reality is decomposing and all the ridiculous horrors of reality are visible, since you are in the violent chronosphere, where the quantum genetic transformations of the instincts of despair are in, in the projection of an alternative reality of the ego of power in which everything is programmed for decomposition.9. The knowledge of world religions is only four keys to a higher form of awareness, they will open the gates to higher worlds; you just need to choose one of these keys in order to evolve.10. Philosophical poetryNoir jazz saxophone of loneliness in poetic comics of memories, with light eroticism of romance. All filled with philosophical silence and self-talk. An almost finished cigarette, it goes like a thought to the logical conclusion of philosophical poetry, where you are looking for a way out of the prison of reality. You play poker with the fate of someone luck, and someone pass. It rains from sinful tears; it does not make the city more conscientious, but a little cleaner. The city is in a fog of thought, the red lightnings of anger sparkle, in the black clouds of depression and then the cold snow of indifference illuminated by the lifeless light of the curiosity of the gods. Soon a new dawn of thoughts, the black and white reality of pessimism, where in the bright colors of the expressive contrasts of the oppositions, there is only a faint light of conscience and animal instincts of darkness. Throughout the deep darkness suggests that the other world is very close and the door there is always open. Everywhere the harsh gray color of thought, periodically sound melodies of the void of truth. Everything is gray here and only red blood is the color of eternal guilt. Everything can become colored only from self-hypnosis in the bright colors of the illusions of optimism. Reason plunges into the darkness of Gothic despair and only a beloved woman can get out of there. The heart accumulates scars, but it does not stop, it continues to live for the sake of loved ones, for the sake of curiosity. In this cold void of the illusions of materialism, only true love will warm the soul, but not lust, because after an orgasm you feel sad notes of loneliness, filled on the piano of sadness. Lust is the girlfriend of egoism, which is the six of self-deception. Vivid memories are a consolation prize of eternity, unlike life they are eternal - these are prosaic scenes of cinema of karma. Scenes of comedians about heroes and villains, where you were exposed as an antihero, and your tormentors were victims. Here you feel literally every frame of sadism of fate.11. From cruel blows of reality, a person does not become prettier.12. From disappointment, the soul cannot stop laughing with a frightening rampant laugh, between fear and rampant angry laughter. The smiling, insanely laughing psyche growls and tears to pieces from the high-voltage psychic tension that gives birth to truth, from a smile the philosophy of the psyche breaks into two parts of the duality of the world. A huge smile is visible in the broken mirror of the psyche, and only sometimes the image of a person is reflected in them as a reflection of conscience. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich