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poker

/poh-ker/US // ˈpoʊ kər //UK // (ˈpəʊkə) //

扑克,扑克牌,拨号,钳子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that pokes.
    • : a metal rod for poking or stirring a fire.

Phrases

  • poker face
  • stiff as a board (poker)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Newly divorced, I wanted none of the “boys club” that had become my married life, where I would come home from work exhausted, fall asleep on the couch, and wake up to a poker party at the dining room table hosted by my unemployed husband.

  • He has also worked on numerous artificial intelligence research projects from F1 racing, to poker bots, to brain simulations.

  • So, when the Slovakia-based user behind the dDandis account began streaming poker games to his 35,000 Twitch followers last month, trouble with the authorities soon ensued.

  • Just as when you trade in part of a poker hand for fresh cards, there was no way of knowing whether the final chimeras would be stronger or weaker.

  • Bullhooks, which resemble fire pokers and were used to control elephants during training, were also banned in cities and states across the United States.

  • Greer is a young, entrepreneurial, poker-loving Texan who ended up in Silicon Valley.

  • Horace had been playing poker with a mortician, who had put the car up as collateral.

  • He was an excellent pool sharp and quick at poker and bridge.

  • The next day, her father was apparently back at the poker tournament.

  • He seemed to find his own escape in poker and had had just been in a big poker tournament on June 28.

  • In sheer nervousness, Hilda also dropped to her knees on the hearthrug, and began to worry the fire with the poker.

  • The paper and the poker are abandoned, chairs are drawn towards the baize-covered table.

  • She wondered if the old gambling spirit had broken out again, and asked if they were playing poker or mont.

  • The same sort of trick may be performed with a poker, round which is evenly pasted a sheet of paper.

  • But I shall do my duty, although I am less at home with the lance or the sword than with the poker of the furnace in my bakery.