Meaning

10 senses
  1. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.

    Schüreisen, Schürhaken

    кочерга́kočergá

    кочерга́kočerhá, коцюба́kocjubá

    fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire

  2. (historical)A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.

  3. One who pokes.

    кочегарkočegar

  4. A kind of duck, the pochard.

  5. (Multicultural London English, slang)A knife.

  6. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Poker

    по́керpóker

    по́керpóker

    any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand

  7. (countable, uncountable)All the four cards of the same rank.

  8. (countable, rare, uncountable)The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.

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

  10. (UK, obsolete, slang)A bedel (who carries a silver mace).

Examples

230 sentences
  1. Tom doesn't like poker very much.

    Том не дуже любить покер. — deniko

    deTom spielt nicht allzu gerne Poker. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom doesn't like poker at all.

    Тому взагалі не подобається покер. — deniko

    ruТом совершенно не любит покер. — sharptoothed

    deTom mag Poker überhaupt nicht. — Yorwba

  3. Tom isn't a good poker player.

    Том не дуже добре грає в покер. — deniko

    ruТом не очень хорошо играет в покер. — odexed

  4. I don't like poker very much.

    Я не дуже люблю покер. — deniko

    ruЯ не очень люблю покер. — marafon

    dePoker mag ich nicht allzusehr. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. I don't like poker at all.

    Покер мені взагалі не подобається. — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
metal rod for poking:
card game:
Русский
By meaning 3
metal rod for poking:
one who pokes:
card game:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
metal rod for poking:
card game:

Origin

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, pe

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

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

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Forms

plural: pokers
Singularpoker
Pluralpokers

regular

Synonyms

24 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

28 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • play poker
  • to play poker
  • play poker with
  • playing poker
  • good poker player
  • poker player
  • is playing poker
  • poker with his
  • playing poker with
  • good at poker
  • never played poker
  • very good poker

See also

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