poker

CEFRB1

/ˈpoʊkɚ/

noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
One who pokes.
A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.

In context

He is very good at poker.
1841, George John Daire, The Rime of the New-made Baccalere On seats with velvet lined, / Sat Heads of Houses in a row, / And Deans and College Dons below, / With a Poker or two behind.
Key sense with the super-soaker Longest poker, leave man stressed like yoga

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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.
2012, Johnny Meah, Risk: No Eulogy for Tin Soldiers, page 40
Key sense with the super-soaker Longest poker, leave man stressed like yoga
2020 July 8, Kaygrab x D1, “Rapid”, 1:18–1:21
Then we went to Mead's and pokered until morning.
1929, West Virginia Wild Life, page 38
Papa liked nothing better than a game of poker . His pokering habits caused Mama grave anxiety.
1969, Emma Wilson Emery, Aunt Puss & Others: Old Days in the Piney Woods, page 94
"He ran with and pokered with us boys,” Bob Paine would recall fifty years later, “ the darndest, pepperyest, finest companion a fellow could ask.”
1992, Vance H. Trimble, The Astonishing Mr. Scripps, page 56

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From poke + -er.