poker

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

From poke +‎ -er.

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.
   • 2012, Johnny Meah, Risk: No Eulogy for Tin Soldiers, page 40:

     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. 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

   • 2020 August 7, Kaygrab x D1, “Rapid”‎^[1], 1:18–1:21:

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

   • 2021 March 6, Mloose (BG), “Real As Hell”‎^[2], 0:58–1:02:

     There is that guy that does with the pokings
     I step with my poker
     Play, cuz right, you might get folded

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.
   • 1796 July, “The Late Lord Chesterfield”, in The Aberdeen Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 70:

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

   • 1939, Norah Gourlie, A Winter with Finnish Lapps, page 68:

     The lids have very pleasant designs pokered on with a hot needle.

   • 1988, Robin Jenkins, Guests of War, page 246:

     When she was gone Bell was afflicted by a mood that had her moving round the room, holding on to the yellow curtain, standing over her girls, stroking the sails of the model yacht, opening the drawer and looking at the broken brooch, pokering the fire, and shifting the kettle's position on the hearth.

• Fireplace poker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

poker (countable and uncountable, plural pokers)

1. (card games) 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.]
   • 2014 September 11, Pam Grout, “Really? 10 unexpected cruise activities”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     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.

2. (card games) All the four cards of the same rank.
4. (soccer, rare) The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.

   Synonym: haul

   • 2021 September 20, Ratul Ghosh, “THE BEST MOMENTS FROM JIMMY GREAVES' LEGENDARY FOOTBALLING CAREER”, in 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”, in MLS:

     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?”, in 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”, in 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”, in 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.

• when the chips are down

• three card brag

Poker hands in English · poker hands (layout · text)
high card	pair	two pair	three of a kind	straight
flush	full house	four of a kind	straight flush	royal flush

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

1. To play poker.
   • 1929, West Virginia Wild Life, page 38:

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

   • 1969, Emma Wilson Emery, Aunt Puss & Others: Old Days in the Piney Woods, page 94:

     Papa liked nothing better than a game of poker . His pokering habits caused Mama grave anxiety.

   • 1992, Vance H. Trimble, The Astonishing Mr. Scripps, page 56:

     "He ran with and pokered with us boys,” Bob Paine would recall fifty years later, “ the darndest, pepperyest, finest companion a fellow could ask.”

   • 2017, Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen, Stay:

     “Yeah,” Lemming mutters. “We're pokering, so shut the fuck up.” “I raise five,” Blake announces.

• Poker (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

poker (plural pokers)

1. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.^[1]
   • 5 May 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to Hon. H. S. Conway:

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

• Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

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

poker inan

1. (Northern) belch

   Synonyms: korrokada, korroskada

poker inan

1. poker

• “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

Borrowed from English poker.

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

poker m inan

1. poker

Borrowed from English poker.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpoˀɡʌ]

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

1. (card games) poker

• pokerspil
• pokeransigt
• pokerspiller
• pokerfjæs
• strippoker

Poker hands in Danish · poker (layout · text)
højeste kort	et par	to par	tre ens	straight
flush	fuldt hus	fire ens	straight flush	royal flush

• “poker” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.kər/

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• Hyphenation: po‧ker
• Rhymes: -oːkər

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

poker n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. poker (card game)

From poken +‎ -er.

poker m (plural pokers, diminutive pokertje n)

1. somebody who pokes a fire

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

poker

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

• koper, krope

Borrowed from English poker.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.kɛʁ/

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poker m (plural pokers)

1. (card games) poker

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

Borrowed from English poker.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpokər/ [ˈpo.kər]
• Rhymes: -okər
• Syllabification: po‧ker

poker (plural poker-poker)

1. (card games) poker

• “poker”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• pocher (rare)

Borrowed from English poker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ker/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔker
• Hyphenation: pò‧ker

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

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

Poker hands in Italian · punti del poker (layout · text)
carta più alta	coppia	doppia coppia	tris	scala
colore	full	poker	scala reale	scala reale massima

Borrowed from English poker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.kɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɔkɛr
• Syllabification: po‧ker

poker m inan

1. poker
2. straight flush

   poker królewski ― royal flush

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

poker m (uncountable)

1. alternative spelling of pôquer
2. alternative spelling of póquer

• “poker”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from English poker.

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

pòker m inan (Cyrillic spelling по̀кер)

1. poker (card game)

• “poker”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• IPA^(key): /pòːkər/

pọ́kər m inan

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

Poker hands in Slovene · poker karte (layout · text)
najvišja karta	par	dva para	tris	lestvica, kenta
barva	full house	poker	barvna lestvica	kraljeva lestvica

Borrowed from English poker. See also Spanish póquer.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpokeɾ/ [ˈpoː.xɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -okeɾ
• Syllabification: po‧ker

poker (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒᜇ᜔) (card games)

1. poker (card game)

• “poker”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “poker”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• English, Leo James (1987), Tagalog-English dictionary, Manila, Philippines: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 1060
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 469

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

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

poker (definite accusative pokeri, plural pokerler)

1. poker

• “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