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poker

/ˈpoʊkɚ/ sustantivo C2

En español: póquer, póker

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

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“No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘_poison_’ or not”; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they _would_ not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger _very_ deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 6 · B2
You’d eaten up a poker!”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 132 · B2
Then I seized the poker and went downstairs.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 75 · C1
See here.” He stepped swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with his huge brown hands.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 51 · B2

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