Meaning

2 senses
  1. A hand where two or more players have very strong hands and one or more of them loses a lot of chips despite the strength of the hand(s) involved.

  2. A pre-shuffled deck of cards substituted for the real deck in order to cheat.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. It's rather cold on deck.

    ruНа палубе довольно холодно.

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Origin

From the metaphor that the deck (of cards) is cold, in the sense "heartless, emotionless".

From the metaphor that the deck (of cards) is cold, in the sense "heartless, emotionless".

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Forms

plural: cold decks
Singularcold deck
Pluralcold decks

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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