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poker - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'poker' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Poker [ n.]
- One who pokes.
- That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
- A poking-stick.
- The poachard.
- A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
- Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.