Usually means: Card game involving betting, strategy.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word poker:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. poker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poker: Merriam-Webster
  3. poker, poker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poker, poker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poker: Collins English Dictionary
  6. poker: Vocabulary.com
  7. poker: Wordnik
  8. poker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. poker: Wiktionary
  10. poker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. poker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. poker: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. poker: Dictionary.com
  14. poker (1), poker (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. poker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Poker (disambiguation), Poker (film), Poker (game), Poker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Poker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. poker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. poker: Rhymezone
  20. poker, poker, poker, poker (m), pker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. poker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. POKER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Poker: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. poker: FreeDictionary.org
  25. poker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. poker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Poker (game), poker: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poker: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Poker: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. poker: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. poker, poker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. poker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Poker: Dan's Poker
  2. Poker: Card Games

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
noun:  (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
noun:  One who pokes.
noun:  A kind of duck, the pochard.
noun:  (MLE, slang) A knife.
verb:  (transitive) To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
noun:  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.
noun:  (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
noun:  (soccer, rare) [a player's] scoring four goals in one match
verb:  To play poker.
noun:  (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

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