poker

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
2. isim A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
3. isim One who pokes.

   “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. isim A kind of duck, the pochard.
5. isim A knife.

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

6. isim A bedel (who carries a silver mace).

   “1841, George John Daire, The Rime of the New-made Baccalere On seats with velvet lined, / Sat Heads of Houses in a row, / And Deans and College Dons below, / With a Poker or two behind.”

7. fiil To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.

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

8. isim 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.

   “As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.”

9. isim All the four cards of the same rank.
10. isim The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.

    “Greaves hit three hat-tricks, two pokers and five goals against West Brom on his way to a record-setting 41 league goals.”

11. fiil To play poker.

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

12. isim Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

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