craps

From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.

“As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]”

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:

Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below

1994, “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in da Park)”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas:

(gambling, dice games) A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.


kings

(poker slang) A pair of kings (playing cards).


post

en-verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

posts (present singular third-person)
posting (participle present)
posted (participle past)
posted (past)

Chinese: po

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .

inh+

Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

(transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.


gin

en-noun

gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins)

Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).

Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.

(poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.


knap

en-verb

knap (third-person singular simple present knaps, present participle knapping, simple past and past participle knapped)

knaps (present singular third-person)
knapping (participle present)
knapped (participle past)
knapped (past)
knap (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English knappen (“to strike (something)”); further etymology uncertain, probably related to Middle Dutch knappen, cnappen (“to break (something) with a sharp sound, snap; to crack or crackle”) (modern Dutch knappen), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English knap, knappe (“sharp blow, strike”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from the verb (see above), or related to an ancestor of Danish knep and Swedish knäpp (“a flick, rap, snap”), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.

napauttaa

(transitive) to say (something) crisply or sharply; (intransitive) to speak crisply or sharply

(gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) To cheat while gambling, especially at a dice game.


knap

'Tis your pence a piece, / […] / Preſto begon? or come aloft? VVhat vvay? / Doublets? or Knap? The Cog? lovv Dice? or high?

a. 1659 (date written), John Cleveland, “The Publick Faith”, in The Works of Mr. John Cleveland, […], London: […] R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, […], published 1687, →OCLC, page 200:

And fights vvith Money-bags as bold, / As men vvith Sand-bags did of old: / […] Engages blind and ſenſeleſs Hap / 'Gainſt High, and Lovv, and Slur and Knap, […]

a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 83, lines 45–46 and 51–52:

(figurative, gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) A method of cheating at a dice game.


donk

(poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes.


donk

en-verb

donk (third-person singular simple present donks, present participle donking, simple past and past participle donked)

donks (present singular third-person)
donking (participle present)
donked (participle past)
donked (past)


two-up

From the image of a wily digger playing two-up, to a prime minister at the track or the tables, the construction of gambling is as an activity quintessentially Australian.

1993, Ernest Hunter, Aboriginal Health and History: Power and Prejudice in Remote Australia, page 242:

The origins of two-up remain obscure. It probably derived from ‘pitch and toss’, a game British youths had played since the late eighteenth century. In Australia pitch and toss was first recorded in the 1850s on the Victorian goldfields, and in New Zealand as a street game on the West Coast in the early 1870s. Two-up evolved as a variant, becoming popular in Australia in the early 1890s, and in New Zealand a year or two later, as labouring men from both countries traversed the Tasman Sea in search of work.

1994, David Malcolm Grant, On a Roll: A History of Gambling and Lotteries in New Zealand, page 66:

Perversely, Scorps chooses not to punt on Anzac Day and won′t go near two-up, probably because his losses will be too public.

2008, Sam De Brito, The Lost Boys, page 280:

(Australia, New Zealand, games) A game of chance, played by betting on the outcome of two pennies thrown in the air.


canine

From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, dog-like”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.

You have been dealt King-9 unsuited ("canine") in your pocket.

2005, Dennis Purdy, The Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold'em, page 270:

(poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.


open-ended

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The flop of 3-6-Q gave Brunson an open-ended straight draw with his 4-5 of hearts.

(poker) Of a straight draw, made up of four consecutive cards, thus able to be completed by either of two ranks of card.


shove

shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past shoved or (obsolete) shave, past participle shoved or (obsolete) shoven)

shoves (present singular third-person)
shoving (participle present)
shoved (past)
shave (obsolete past)
shoved (participle past)
shoven (obsolete participle past)

From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-.
See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skubać ‘to pluck’, Albanian humb ‘to lose.'

(poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

Both players had four of a kind. A had quad fours; B had quad deuces.

2001, Alfred Alvarez, Poker: Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats, page 90:

Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).

(poker slang, attributive) Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).


casino

en-noun

casino (countable and uncountable, plural casinos or casinoes or casini)

casinos (plural)
casinoes (plural)
casini (plural)

From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).

A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia.

2017 August 16, Christopher Knauss, The Guardian:

kazino

public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling


casino

nl-noun

casino m (plural casino's, diminutive casinootje n)

casino's (plural)
casinootje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: kasino


casino

→ Italian: casinò


casino

→ English: casino

→ Ladino: gazino

→ Ottoman Turkish: غازینو (gazino)

Turkish: gazino

→ Portuguese: casino

→ Spanish: casino

From casa + -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.


casino

Borrowed from Italian casino. Doublet of cassino.


casino

(Chile) cafeteria, canteen (staff restaurant)


casino

casino (indefinite nominative singular)
casinos (genitive indefinite singular)
casinot (definite nominative singular)
casinots (definite genitive singular)
casinon (indefinite nominative plural)
casinons (genitive indefinite plural)
casinona (definite nominative plural)
casinonas (definite genitive plural)


reader

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.

1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1, page 286:

Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."

1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception, page 185:

(slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.


back out

en-verb

back out (third-person singular simple present backs out, present participle backing out, simple past and past participle backed out)

backs out (present singular third-person)
backing out (participle present)
backed out (participle past)
backed out (past)

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1921, Henry Luttrell, Crockford's : Or Life in the West Sketch No. III
Whatever you throw is your chance. I called five for the main, which is the out chance, and threw seven to it, which is the in chance. If I throw five first, I lose, and if seven I win. You can back me in by betting the odds, or you can back me out, by taking the odds, the bank answers either way.

See also: sell short


Mexican standoff

en-noun

Mexican standoff (plural Mexican standoffs)

Mexican standoff
Reservoir Dogs
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

1876 US.
Three-way gun standoffs, popularized in spaghetti westerns such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966), have come to be called Mexican standoffs, though this usage appears to date to the 1990s, notably in reference to Reservoir Dogs (1992); earlier usage refers to this as a “three-way standoff” or “triangular standoff”.

(slang) A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win.

(slang, poker) A pot that is split among the players because of a tie.


tens

teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties

Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties


wired

en-adj

wired (comparative more wired, superlative most wired)

more wired (comparative)
most wired (superlative)

(poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.

I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

(poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.


carré

→ Russian: каре́ (karé) (see there for further descendants)

→ Polish: kara (“quadrangle”)

→ Turkish: kare

Inherited from Middle French quarré, from Old French quarré, from Latin quadrātus. Compare the borrowed doublet cadrat.


in the dark

(poker slang) Without looking at one's hole cards, thus not knowing what they are.


suerte

→ Bikol Central: suwerte

→ Cebuano: swerte

→ Tagalog: swerte

Inherited from Old Spanish suerte, from Latin sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Compare Portuguese sorte, Galician sorte.


razz

(poker) A version of seven-card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).


buy-in

en-noun

buy-in (countable and uncountable, plural buy-ins)

(poker) A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts.

When tournament players are eliminated but remain eager to win back their buy-in, side games often develop and upstage tournament play with limits exceeding those in the tournament.

1983, David M. Hayano, Poker faces: the life and work of professional card players:

(poker) The amount that a player buys in for


across the board

Originated with horse racing, where an "across the board" bet was one which covered first, second and third on the betting board.

(gambling) Having an equal amount staked on a competitor placing first, second, or third.


get on

en-verb

get on (third-person singular simple present gets on, present participle getting on, simple past got on, past participle (UK) got on or (US) gotten on)

gets on (present singular third-person)
getting on (participle present)
got on (past)
got on (UK participle past)
gotten on (US participle past)

to get on a horse or a man

(slang, archaic, transitive, gambling) To place a bet on.


pike

pike (third-person singular simple present pikes, present participle piking, simple past and past participle piked)

pikes (present singular third-person)
piking (participle present)
piked (participle past)
piked (past)

From Middle English pyke, pyk, pik, pike (“pike; sharp point, iron tip of a staff or spear, pointed toe of an item of footwear; sharp tool; mountain, peak”), from Old English pīc (“pointed object, pick axe”), and Middle French pique (“long thrusting weapon”), from Old French pic (“sharp point, spike”); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz, *pīkō (“sharp point, pike, peak”), related to pick with a narrower meaning.
The word is cognate with Middle Dutch pecke, peke, picke (modern Dutch piek), German Pike, Norwegian pik, Danish pig, and possibly Old Irish pīk. It is a doublet of pique.
The diving or gymnastics position is probably from tapered appearance of the body when the position is executed.
The carnivorous freshwater fish is probably derived from the “sharp point, spike” senses, due to the fish’s pointed jaws.
The verb sense “to quit or back out of a promise” may be from the sense of taking up pilgrim's staff or pike and leaving on a pilgrimage; and compare Middle English pī̆ken (“to go, remove oneself”) and Old Danish pikke af (“to go away”).

cog

I put the temporary squinch on the rum bug when I got there and piked along at a ten-cent table with the last two dollars I had.

1900, Clarence Louis Cullen, Tales of the Ex-tanks: A Book of Hard-luck Stories, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap […], →OCLC, page 339:

Not that my wife is an inveterate gambler; as a matter of fact the poor kid hasn't any card sense at all and doesn't even care for it. She only piked along because I—I compelled her to.

1920, Isabel Ostrander, “The Lure of Chance”, in How Many Cards?, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, […], →OCLC, page 188:

I found no difficulty in obtaining admission to the Navarre's long gambling room, where I "piked" by placing two-bit bets on the numbered roulette board.

1964, Gilbert Patten (“Burt L. Standish”), edited by Harriet Hinsdale, assisted by Tony London, Frank Merriwell’'s “Father”: An Autobiography, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →OCLC, page 208:

(intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.


flush

en-adj

flush (comparative flusher, superlative flushest)

flusher (comparative)
flushest (superlative)

Same as Etymology 3, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:


flush

→ French: flush

→ Japanese: フラッシュ (furasshu)

→ Korean: 플러쉬 (peulleoswi)

→ Portuguese: flush

Probably from Middle French flus (“flow”), cognate with flux.

(poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.


flush

(poker) flush (hand consisting of all cards with the same suit)


banco

From Italian banco. Doublet of banc, bank, and bench.

Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.

1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:

(gambling) In baccarat or chemin de fer, a bet on the banker hand.


rundown

→ Spanish: rondón

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Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, […]

I would say this: If you are in a community where you do not have the rundown sheet on the horses in the race, do what they have done in Sacramento.

1960, American Trial Lawyers Association, Convention Proceedings, page 455:

(gambling) A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc.


abrir

pt-verb

abrir (first-person singular present abro, first-person singular preterite abri, past participle aberto)

abro (first-person present singular)
abri (first-person preterite singular)
aberto (participle past)
abrir (impersonal infinitive)
abrir (first-person infinitive singular)
abrires (infinitive second-person singular)
abrir (infinitive singular third-person)
abrirmos (first-person infinitive plural)
abrirdes (infinitive plural second-person)
abrirem (infinitive plural third-person)
abrindo (gerund)
aberto (masculine participle past singular)
abertos (masculine participle past plural)
aberta (feminine participle past singular)
abertas (feminine participle past plural)
abro (first-person indicative present singular)
abres (indicative present second-person singular)
abre (indicative present singular third-person)
abrimos (first-person indicative plural present)
abris (indicative plural present second-person)
abrem (indicative plural present third-person)
abria (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
abrias (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
abria (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
abríamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
abríeis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
abriam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
abri (first-person indicative preterite singular)
abriste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
abriu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
abrimos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
abristes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
abriram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
abrira (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
abriras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
abrira (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
abríramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
abríreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
abriram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
abrirei (first-person future indicative singular)
abrirás (future indicative second-person singular)
abrirá (future indicative singular third-person)
abriremos (first-person future indicative plural)
abrireis (future indicative plural second-person)
abrirão (future indicative plural third-person)
abriria (conditional first-person singular)
abririas (conditional second-person singular)
abriria (conditional singular third-person)
abriríamos (conditional first-person plural)
abriríeis (conditional plural second-person)
abririam (conditional plural third-person)
abra (first-person present singular subjunctive)
abras (present second-person singular subjunctive)
abra (present singular subjunctive third-person)
abramos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
abrais (plural present second-person subjunctive)
abram (plural present subjunctive third-person)
abrisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
abrisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
abrisse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
abríssemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
abrísseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
abrissem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
abrir (first-person future singular subjunctive)
abrires (future second-person singular subjunctive)
abrir (future singular subjunctive third-person)
abrirmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
abrirdes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
abrirem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
abre (imperative second-person singular)
abra (imperative singular third-person)
abramos (first-person imperative plural)
abri (imperative plural second-person)
abram (imperative plural third-person)
não abras (imperative negative second-person singular)
não abra (imperative negative singular third-person)
não abramos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não abrais (imperative negative plural second-person)
não abram (imperative negative plural third-person)

From Old Galician-Portuguese abrir, from Latin aperīre, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off, from”) + *wer-iō (“open”).

der

(transitive, card games, poker) to deal (a card)


tris

trȋs (canonical inanimate masculine)
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tris (nominative singular)
trisa (dual nominative)
trisi (nominative plural)
trisa (genitive singular)
trisov (dual genitive)
trisov (genitive plural)
trisu (dative singular)
trisoma (dative dual)
trisom (dative plural)
tris (accusative singular)
trisa (accusative dual)
trise (accusative plural)
trisu (locative singular)
trisih (dual locative)
trisih (locative plural)
trisom (instrumental singular)
trisoma (dual instrumental)
trisi (instrumental plural)


juego

Inherited from Latin jocus, iocus.
Cognates include English joke, Occitan jòc, Catalan joc, French jeu, Portuguese jogo, and Italian gioco.


straight flush

en-noun

straight flush (plural straight flushes)

→ Portuguese: straight flush

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(poker) A hand that is both straight (the cards are all in sequence) and flush (the cards are all of the same suit).


straight flush

pt-noun

straight flush m (plural straight flushes)

Unadapted borrowing from English straight flush.

ubor

(poker) straight flush (a hand that is both straight and flush)


quiniela

(gambling) A kind of bet in which the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted, but (unlike a perfecta) not necessarily in the correct order.


quiniela

Latin American/American Spanish, diminutive of quina (“double five”).

Voy a echar la quiniela.


patent

en-noun

patent (countable and uncountable, plural patents)

The noun is derived from Middle English patent (“document granting an office, property, right, title, etc.; document granting permission, licence; papal indulgence, pardon”) [and other forms], which is either:
* a clipping of lettre patent, lettres patente, lettres patentes [and other forms]; or
* directly from Anglo-Norman and Middle French patente (modern French patent), a clipping of Anglo-Norman lettres patentes, Middle French lettres patentes, lettre patente, and Old French patentes lettres (“document granting an office, privilege, right, etc., or making a decree”) (compare Late Latin patēns, littera patēns, litterae patentēs).
For the derivation of Anglo-Norman and Middle French patente (adjective) in lettre patente, see etymology 2 below.
The verb is derived from the noun.

nb...

patent lettre, patent lettres, patente lettre, patente lettres

der

[ˈpʰæ̝ʔn̩t̚]

[ˈpʰe̞ɪʔn̩t̚]

(gambling) The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.


amano

From Spanish jugar mano a mano (“to play even”).


sit out

en-verb

sit out (third-person singular simple present sits out, present participle sitting out, simple past and past participle sat out)

sits out (present singular third-person)
sitting out (participle present)
sat out (participle past)
sat out (past)

(poker) To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.


cooler

(poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.

(poker) A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.


junket

From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes; food, probably made of sour milk or cream; banquet, feast.”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil.
Meaning shifted to "feast or banquet" by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of "pleasure-trip" (1814), and then to specifically to "trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment" by 1886 in American English.

der

(gambling) A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.


Heinz

From the H. J. Heinz Company's "57 Varieties" slogan.

(poker slang) A five and a seven as starting cards in Texas hold 'em

(UK, gambling, slang) A full-cover bet of doubles and upwards, consisting of six selections in 57 bets.


Ajax

THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...

2016, Suzi Parron, Following the Barn Quilt Trail, Ohio University Press, →ISBN:

Natchitoches Parish
Natchitoches Parish#English

An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.


Chip

de-noun

Chip m (strong, genitive Chips, plural Chips)

Chips (genitive)
Chips (plural)
Chip (nominative singular)
Chips (definite nominative plural)
Chips (genitive singular)
Chips (definite genitive plural)
Chip (dative singular)
Chips (dative definite plural)
Chip (accusative singular)
Chips (accusative definite plural)

(also gambling) chip (piece of plastic or metal used as a token for money, entrance tickets, etc.)


Roulette

Roulette n (strong, genitive Roulettes, plural Roulettes)

Roulettes (genitive)
Roulettes (plural)
Roulette (nominative singular)
Roulettes (definite nominative plural)
Roulettes (genitive singular)
Roulettes (definite genitive plural)
Roulette (dative singular)
Roulettes (dative definite plural)
Roulette (accusative singular)
Roulettes (accusative definite plural)

→ Hungarian: rulett


kilter

Probably a variant of dialectal kelter (“odds and ends; litter, rubbish”); further etymology unknown.

(card games, chiefly poker) A hand of playing cards which is useless.


heads-up

There were only two of us, so we started playing heads-up.

There are seven players on the table. Five folded, the remaining two played heads-up until the showdown.

(poker) Involving two players. (usually said when there are only two players in the table; or, when all players except two folded)


betting shop

(chiefly British) The premises of a bookmaker, where people may place bets, watch horse races etc on television, and collect their winnings.


dee

(Cantonese, poker, especially in big two) the largest of the poker cards, i.e. 2 (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


bookmaker

From Middle English bokmakere, boke maker, equivalent to book + maker.

(gambling) A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.

مُرَاهِن

a person who calculates odds and accepts bets; a bookie


bookmaker

cs-noun

bookmaker m anim (female equivalent bookmakerka)

bookmakerka (feminine)
bookmaker (nominative singular)
bookmakeři (nominative plural)
bookmakera (genitive singular)
bookmakerů (genitive plural)
bookmakerovi (dative singular)
bookmakeru (dative singular)
bookmakerům (dative plural)
bookmakera (accusative singular)
bookmakery (accusative plural)
bookmakere (singular vocative)
bookmakeři (plural vocative)
bookmakerovi (locative singular)
bookmakeru (locative singular)
bookmakerech (locative plural)
bookmakerem (instrumental singular)
bookmakery (instrumental plural)

Unadapted borrowing from English bookmaker.


kicker

Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker.

(poker) An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.


AF

en-noun

AF (countable and uncountable, plural AFs)

aggression factor
aggression factor#English

(poker) Initialism of aggression factor.


PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization
w:Palestine Liberation Organization

Initialism of Palestine Liberation Organization.


stripper

(gambling) A playing card that has been trimmed so that a cheat can recognise it from the back.


talon

Compare Malay terjun (“to dive, to jump from a high place”) and Malay turun (“descend; fall”).

cog

(gambling) a kind of bet in the game sakla


royalty

en-noun

royalty (countable and uncountable, plural royalties)

→ Danish: royalty

→ German: Royalty

→ Italian: royalty

→ Norwegian Bokmål: royalty

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: royalty

→ Portuguese: royalty

→ Swedish: royalty

From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis, equivalent to royal + -ty.

(poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.


add-on

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(poker) Additional chips that can be purchased at specific times in tournament play.


vigorish

vigorish (countable and uncountable, plural vigorishes)

From Yiddish וויגריש (vigrish), from Russian вы́игрыш (výigryš, “winnings”).

The house sets vigs on any game they allow you to bet on. It is your responsibility to play only those games where the vig is not prohibitive. Let's take one more look at how vigorish works for the house.

1984, John Patrick, Craps, →ISBN, page 11:

The bookmaker's mean profit per dollar bet is called vigorish or “the vig.” In our example, 11 + 11 = $22 is bet, and the bookmaker wins $1 so the vig is 1/22 = 4.5%.

2009, Wayne L. Winston, Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics, page 256:

(uncountable, slang) A charge taken on bets, as by a bookie or gambling establishment.


stool pigeon

From the act of tying or even nailing a pigeon to a stool to act as a decoy by hunters. Alternatively, from an alteration of stale (“decoy”) + pigeon.

(slang, obsolete, gambling) A decoy used in a crooked gambling game.


sorsa

sorsa (nominative singular)
sorsat (nominative plural)
sorsa (accusative nominative singular)
sorsat (accusative nominative plural)
sorsan (accusative genitive singular)
sorsat (accusative genitive plural)
sorsan (genitive singular)
sorsien (genitive plural)
sorsain (genitive plural rare)
sorsaa (partitive singular)
sorsia (partitive plural)
sorsassa (inessive singular)
sorsissa (inessive plural)
sorsasta (elative singular)
sorsista (elative plural)
sorsaan (illative singular)
sorsiin (illative plural)
sorsalla (adessive singular)
sorsilla (adessive plural)
sorsalta (ablative singular)
sorsilta (ablative plural)
sorsalle (allative singular)
sorsille (allative plural)
sorsana (essive singular)
sorsina (essive plural)
sorsaksi (singular translative)
sorsiksi (plural translative)
sorsatta (abessive singular)
sorsitta (abessive plural)
sorsin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
sorsani (nominative singular)
sorsani (nominative plural)
sorsani (accusative nominative singular)
sorsani (accusative nominative plural)
sorsani (accusative genitive singular)
sorsani (accusative genitive plural)
sorsani (genitive singular)
sorsieni (genitive plural)
sorsaini (genitive plural rare)
sorsaani (partitive singular)
sorsiani (partitive plural)
sorsassani (inessive singular)
sorsissani (inessive plural)
sorsastani (elative singular)
sorsistani (elative plural)
sorsaani (illative singular)
sorsiini (illative plural)
sorsallani (adessive singular)
sorsillani (adessive plural)
sorsaltani (ablative singular)
sorsiltani (ablative plural)
sorsalleni (allative singular)
sorsilleni (allative plural)
sorsanani (essive singular)
sorsinani (essive plural)
sorsakseni (singular translative)
sorsikseni (plural translative)
sorsattani (abessive singular)
sorsittani (abessive plural)
sorsineni (comitative plural)
sorsasi (nominative singular)
sorsasi (nominative plural)
sorsasi (accusative nominative singular)
sorsasi (accusative nominative plural)
sorsasi (accusative genitive singular)
sorsasi (accusative genitive plural)
sorsasi (genitive singular)
sorsiesi (genitive plural)
sorsaisi (genitive plural rare)
sorsaasi (partitive singular)
sorsiasi (partitive plural)
sorsassasi (inessive singular)
sorsissasi (inessive plural)
sorsastasi (elative singular)
sorsistasi (elative plural)
sorsaasi (illative singular)
sorsiisi (illative plural)
sorsallasi (adessive singular)
sorsillasi (adessive plural)
sorsaltasi (ablative singular)
sorsiltasi (ablative plural)
sorsallesi (allative singular)
sorsillesi (allative plural)
sorsanasi (essive singular)
sorsinasi (essive plural)
sorsaksesi (singular translative)
sorsiksesi (plural translative)
sorsattasi (abessive singular)
sorsittasi (abessive plural)
sorsinesi (comitative plural)
sorsamme (nominative singular)
sorsamme (nominative plural)
sorsamme (accusative nominative singular)
sorsamme (accusative nominative plural)
sorsamme (accusative genitive singular)
sorsamme (accusative genitive plural)
sorsamme (genitive singular)
sorsiemme (genitive plural)
sorsaimme (genitive plural rare)
sorsaamme (partitive singular)
sorsiamme (partitive plural)
sorsassamme (inessive singular)
sorsissamme (inessive plural)
sorsastamme (elative singular)
sorsistamme (elative plural)
sorsaamme (illative singular)
sorsiimme (illative plural)
sorsallamme (adessive singular)
sorsillamme (adessive plural)
sorsaltamme (ablative singular)
sorsiltamme (ablative plural)
sorsallemme (allative singular)
sorsillemme (allative plural)
sorsanamme (essive singular)
sorsinamme (essive plural)
sorsaksemme (singular translative)
sorsiksemme (plural translative)
sorsattamme (abessive singular)
sorsittamme (abessive plural)
sorsinemme (comitative plural)
sorsanne (nominative singular)
sorsanne (nominative plural)
sorsanne (accusative nominative singular)
sorsanne (accusative nominative plural)
sorsanne (accusative genitive singular)
sorsanne (accusative genitive plural)
sorsanne (genitive singular)
sorsienne (genitive plural)
sorsainne (genitive plural rare)
sorsaanne (partitive singular)
sorsianne (partitive plural)
sorsassanne (inessive singular)
sorsissanne (inessive plural)
sorsastanne (elative singular)
sorsistanne (elative plural)
sorsaanne (illative singular)
sorsiinne (illative plural)
sorsallanne (adessive singular)
sorsillanne (adessive plural)
sorsaltanne (ablative singular)
sorsiltanne (ablative plural)
sorsallenne (allative singular)
sorsillenne (allative plural)
sorsananne (essive singular)
sorsinanne (essive plural)
sorsaksenne (singular translative)
sorsiksenne (plural translative)
sorsattanne (abessive singular)
sorsittanne (abessive plural)
sorsinenne (comitative plural)
sorsansa (nominative singular)
sorsansa (nominative plural)
sorsansa (accusative nominative singular)
sorsansa (accusative nominative plural)
sorsansa (accusative genitive singular)
sorsansa (accusative genitive plural)
sorsansa (genitive singular)
sorsiensa (genitive plural)
sorsainsa (genitive plural rare)
sorsaansa (partitive singular)
sorsiaan (partitive plural)
sorsiansa (partitive plural)
sorsassaan (inessive singular)
sorsassansa (inessive singular)
sorsissaan (inessive plural)
sorsissansa (inessive plural)
sorsastaan (elative singular)
sorsastansa (elative singular)
sorsistaan (elative plural)
sorsistansa (elative plural)
sorsaansa (illative singular)
sorsiinsa (illative plural)
sorsallaan (adessive singular)
sorsallansa (adessive singular)
sorsillaan (adessive plural)
sorsillansa (adessive plural)
sorsaltaan (ablative singular)
sorsaltansa (ablative singular)
sorsiltaan (ablative plural)
sorsiltansa (ablative plural)
sorsalleen (allative singular)
sorsallensa (allative singular)
sorsilleen (allative plural)
sorsillensa (allative plural)
sorsanaan (essive singular)
sorsanansa (essive singular)
sorsinaan (essive plural)
sorsinansa (essive plural)
sorsakseen (singular translative)
sorsaksensa (singular translative)
sorsikseen (plural translative)
sorsiksensa (plural translative)
sorsattaan (abessive singular)
sorsattansa (abessive singular)
sorsittaan (abessive plural)
sorsittansa (abessive plural)
sorsineen (comitative plural)
sorsinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *sorsa, of unknown further origin.

[ˈs̠o̞rs̠ɑ̝]


floater

From float + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

kelluja

person who physically floats in a gas or liquid

paikanvaihtaja

person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role

kelluva esine

thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid

leijuri

[Rule] 477.(1) The boxer for a game of triple penny two-up, or a floor manager, may declare a spin invalid if the spin is a floater. […] [Rule 477.](6) In this section—"floater" means a spin in which at least 1 of the coins does not turn over in the air at least once.

1998 July 27, Casino Gaming Amendment Rule (No. 2) 1998 (Subordinate Legislation 1998 No. 233), [Brisbane, Qld.]: Queensland Government, archived from the original on 2004-07-30, pages 7–8:

(figurative) A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating.

(two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.

ilmassa kieppumaton kolikko

(two-up) coin which does not spin when thrown in the air


vig

en-noun

vig (countable and uncountable, plural vigs)

Clipping of vigorish, from Yiddish וויגריש (vigrish), from Russian вы́игрыш (výigryš, “winnings”).

The vig is like your "tax" paid on a bet which goes to the bookie. For example, every $100 I would bet, I had a vig of $10. So if I bet $500 and lost that bet, I would owe $550. Trust me, when you don't win, the vigs add up quick!

2016, Mark Andersch, By an Addict, for an Addict, →ISBN:

(slang) Synonym of vigorish (“charge taken on bets”)

1973, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin (screenplay), Mean Streets, quoted in 2009, Ellis Cashmore, Martin Scorsese's America, page 118,
“You charged a guy from the neighborhood $1800 vig?” he asks incredulously (“vig” is short for vigorish, meaning a rate of interest from a loan from an illegal moneylender).

The guy was probably professional muscle, a leg breaker who collects vig for a loan shark. (Vig is a mob term for interest on loans to a loan shark.)

2005, F. P. Lione, The Crossroads (Midtown Blue Book; 2), page 100:

"Look, I know I owe you and I know I'm late but I'm good for it. I am. In fact I'll pay you triple what I owe. Triple! Plus the missing vigs, but I need some help first."

2009, Davinia Bostick, The Match, →ISBN, page 91:

(US slang, crime) Synonym of vigorish (“interest from a loan, as from a loan shark”)

vigorish

Synonym of vigorish (“commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge”)


double up

en-verb

double up (third-person singular simple present doubles up, present participle doubling up, simple past and past participle doubled up)

doubles up (present singular third-person)
doubling up (participle present)
doubled up (participle past)
doubled up (past)

(poker, by extension, intransitive) To double one's amount of chips by winning an all-in pot.


tilt

tilt (third-person singular simple present tilts, present participle tilting, simple past and past participle tilted)

tilts (present singular third-person)
tilting (participle present)
tilted (participle past)
tilted (past)

From Middle English tilte, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan (“to be unsteady”), related to the adjective tealt (“unsteady”), from Proto-West Germanic *talt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling pace”).
The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt "covering". The modern transitive meaning is from 1590; the intransitive use appears 1620.

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The D.F.S. industry is still inextricably tied up in those poker roots. Players talk about "tilting" because of "variance," especially when a "fish" puts in a "donkey" lineup that ends up going crazy. (In regular American English, this translates roughly to "I am really mad because some idiot punched in some random lineup that ended up catching every conceivable break and beating me.")

2016 January 6, Jay Caspian Kang, “How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans Into Suckers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-28:

Even the best players can tilt which can cause their performance to drop significantly. Players often tilt when they're on a losing spree or frustrated with the game.

2022 September 2, Gökhan Çakır, Harrison Thomas, “How to get better at VALORANT”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2023-03-15:

This was yet another surprising momentum swing, with Nepomniachtchi seemingly having addressed his tendency to tilt after a loss, and with Ding crashing back down to Earth after having squared the ledger in the previous game. Is this a new Nepomniachtchi, capable of digging deep and avenging losses?

2023 April 19, Ben Tippett, “Haymakers Are Flying At The World Chess Championship”, in Defector, archived from the original on 2023-06-05:

(originally poker, video games, chess, slang) To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.


tilt

to go on tilt

In his landmark book, The Mental Game of Poker, sports psychologist Jared Tendler defines "tilt" as "anger + bad play". In short, you lose your mental equilibrium and start playing below your best, often making big mistakes. Tilt is caused by many different factors and Tendler defines seven types of tilt.

2014 September 10, Amit Varma, “Magnus Carlsen's weakness”, in The Economic Times, Mumbai: Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-19:

In his follow-up video below, ScrapComputer goes into a long list of suggestions for stopping and avoiding tilt while you play League of Legends.

2016 February 26, Philip Kollar, “What is 'tilt' in League of Legends, and how can you avoid it?”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 2023-04-01:

Doing the same thing and expecting a different result can drive you insane, especially League of Legends. As you keep losing, you become tilted and get frustrated. No matter how mechanically gifted you are, it can't help ameliorate tilt.

2019 October 15, Hawken Miller, “How to quickly climb the League of Legends ranked ladder”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-17:

As long as you know that being consistent and sticking to a strategy in the long run, will win you money, you can avoid tilt and negative emotions.

2022 March 16, “Online poker: from beginner to pro”, in Times of Malta, archived from the original on 2022-04-21:

(uncountable, poker, video games, chess, slang) A state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.


shortstop

The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.

(gambling) A player who is short of money.


back door

The flop had the ace of spades, queen of spades, and two of diamonds, and I was holding the king of spades and the three of hearts. I bet big, hoping for a jack and a ten to make my back door straight-draw, or a spade to make my back door flush-draw. But when the turn card was the five of clubs, I had to fold.

(poker, of a draw) Requiring consecutive cards on the turn and river to be achieved.


scratch card

(gambling) A lottery ticket containing sections covered with an opaque waxy film which may be removed by scratching to reveal symbols that show whether or not a prize has been won.


rollover

en-noun

rollover (countable and uncountable, plural rollovers)

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(British) In the National or European lottery, the situation in which a jackpot that has not been won is carried over to the next week.

siirtyminen ensi kierrokselle

Britain: in the National or European lottery, the situation in which a jackpot that has not been won is carried over to the next week


locksmith

From Middle English loksmith; equivalent to lock + smith.

(gambling, slang) someone who only bets when they are sure they will win


bullets

(poker slang) A pair of aces as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em


sleeper

(slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.


rebuy

A type of poker tournament that allows players to purchase more chips during the course of the tournament.


trifecta

The conservative player will play the exacta box bet and the occasional trifecta box wager.

2006, Vincent Conti, Thoroughbred Horse Racing Systems and Methodologies, page 9:

In a trifecta, you must wager on three horses: the one that finishes first (win), the one that finishes second (place), and the one that finishes third (show) in order.

2010, Leonard A. Asimow, Mark M. Maxwell, Probability and Statistics with Applications: A Problem Solving Text, page 10:

(gambling) A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.

troikka

bet on the first three places of a race in the order


lowball

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American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball.

deuce-to-seven lowball
deuce-to-seven lowball

(poker) A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.)


ammo

ammo (usually uncountable, plural ammos)

(slang, games, gambling, uncommon) Chips or money, usually at a casino.


trips

(poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if one of the three cards is in one's hand and the other two are on the board. Compare set (“three of a kind, especially with one card on the board and the other two in one's hand”).


snake eyes

From the resemblance of the two single pips to the eyes of a snake.

Coordinate term: boxcars

It’s as if snake eyes, which should occur randomly only once every 36 times you roll a pair of dice, were coming up once every four times.

2021 June 29, Michael E. Mann, Susan Joy Hassol, “That Heat Dome? Yeah, It’s Climate Change.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(gambling, dice games, idiomatic) Two ones, after rolling two dice.


all in

By betting his last $100, John was all in.

(poker) Having no further stake to wager, but remaining active in a hand.


all in

(poker) A hand where at least one player bets all of his or her chips.

全押

hand where the player bets all of his chips

Since she was against an all in, Jill had no reason to bet.


nines

He drew nines from the deck.


escalera

escaleras (plural)
escalerita (diminutive)

Inherited from Old Spanish escalera, from Late Latin scālāria, from Latin scālae (“steps”). Compare English escalator, Asturian escalera, and Portuguese escaleira.


salida

(gambling) money paid out to winners in excess of the winnings after each game


parada

From the feminine past participle of parar.

(gambling) stake (money laid down as a wager)


covered

John has $100 on the table, while Jill only has $75. John has Jill covered.

(poker) Than whom another player has more money available for betting.


golpe

Borrowed from Spanish golpe, from Old Spanish colpe, from Late Latin colpus, syncopation of *colŭpus, alteration of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos). Doublet of gulpi.

(gambling) first prize of money given to the owner of a gambling place


Black Friday

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From black (“bad; ill-omened; marked by disaster”). Friday is an ill-omened day according to ancient superstition, so a Friday that was darkened by another ill-omen (such as being the 13th) or an actual disaster became known as "Black Friday". Philadelphia police applied the term to the day after Thanksgiving because the large number of people out shopping made traffic chaotic. Later, PR efforts purposely invented the incorrect, more positive "etymology" (which is a very popular urban legend and false etymology that was even in Wiktionary from 2008 to 2015) that the name was given because this day is supposedly the first day of the year on which retailers typically posted profits ('in the black') rather than losses ('in the red').

en:any of certain historically bad Fridays

Any Friday literally or figuratively darkened by catastrophe, or the anniversary thereof.

(Internet slang, poker, historical) The conclusion of United States v. Scheinberg in 15 April 2011, after which major online poker sites stopped offering real money play to their United States customers.


litur

is-noun

litur m (genitive singular litar, nominative plural litir)

litar (genitive singular)
litir (nominative plural)
litur (indefinite nominative singular)
liturinn (definite nominative singular)
litir (indefinite nominative plural)
litirnir (definite nominative plural)
lit (accusative indefinite singular)
litinn (accusative definite singular)
liti (accusative indefinite plural)
litina (accusative definite plural)
lit (dative indefinite singular)
litnum (dative definite singular)
litum (dative indefinite plural)
litunum (dative definite plural)
litar (genitive indefinite singular)
litarins (definite genitive singular)
lita (genitive indefinite plural)
litanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse litr, from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlituz (“appearance, look, aspect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”).


parlay

en-verb

parlay (third-person singular simple present parlays, present participle parlaying, simple past and past participle parlayed)

parlays (present singular third-person)
parlaying (participle present)
parlayed (participle past)
parlayed (past)

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The verb is derived from paroli (“cumulative bet in card games”), possibly modified under the influence of French parler (“to speak, talk”). Paroli is derived from French paroli (“double stake”), from Italian paroli, plural of parolo (first-person singular present indicative of parare (“to protect or shield (from); to prepare”), from Latin parāre, present active infinitive of parō (“to arrange, prepare; to furnish, provide”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth, fare”)) + Italian -lo (suffix meaning ‘it; this or that thing’).
The noun is derived from the verb.

der

(transitive, intransitive, gambling) To carry forward the stake and winnings from a bet on to a subsequent wager or series of wagers.


parlay

GARNETT. (Sharply.) Would someone mind telling a visitor the details of this Operation Snitch? / DENNIS. Kind of a three-horse-parlay, Cliff: Posenleben, Schweinhafen … (Eyes Prescott and Jenks.) And one other.

1947, William Wister Haines, Command Decision: Play in Three Acts, acting edition, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 1974, →OCLC, act I, page 17:

They heard the placing of bets of $1, $2 and $3 and $5 "round robin parlays" on horses with names such as Ham Bone, Little Colleen, Miss Ellaneous, Fighting Thru, Papa Charlie, Dandy Foot, William Tell, Knot Hole, Betsy Marie, Poocha and Under the Rug.

1955 March 14, Michael Musmanno, Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, “Appendix: Dissenting Opinion of Musmanno, J., of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania”, in In the Supreme Court of the United States: No. 111: October Term, 1955. Isaac Chaitt, Petitioner, v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondent. Petition for Writ of Certiorari and Appendix, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lemuel B. Schofield, attorney for petitioner, page 52:

The officer's affidavit was to the effect that he and another officer had made "extensive investigation of gambling operations" locally; he had information that a local printing company "printed parlay cards which were being used for betting on college and professional football games;" [...]

1973 October 1, Frank Holt, Associate Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, “Appendix A: … Claude Earl Flaherty and Gene Whipple, Appellants v. State of Arksansas, Appellee”, in In the Supreme Court of the United States: October Term, 1973: Claude Earl Flaherty and Gene Whipple, Petitioners, v. State of Arkansas, Respondent. Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas, Fort Smith, Ark.: Franklin Wilder, counsel for petitioners, published 1973, page 21:

One of the most common and important types of probability problems is what gamblers call "parlays." When you bet a parlay, you are betting on the outcome of two or more events with the stipulation that all of your selection must be right in order for you to win. [...] Most gamblers think solely of sporting events when they think of parlays. Actually, any time you figure the probability that all of a number of events (each with its own separate probability) will occur you are figuring a parlay.

2005 March, David Sklansky, “Mathematics of Parlays”, in Getting the Best of It, Las Vegas, Nev.: Two Plus Two Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Probability: The Mathematics of Gambling), page 17:

(originally US, gambling) A bet or series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward; an accumulator.


roulette wheel

(gambling) A slotted wheel that rotates horizontally; players bet on which slot the ball will stop in.


all-in

(poker) all in (hand where at the player bets all of his chips)


hit and run

en-verb

hit and run (third-person singular simple present hits and runs, present participle hitting and running, simple past hit and ran, past participle hit and run)

hits and runs (present singular third-person)
hitting and running (participle present)
hit and ran (past)
hit and run (participle past)

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(poker) To join a poker game, quickly win several hands, then leave.


tatt

"Oh," said Killigrew, "you had the wit not to give yourselves out for sharpers?"
"Yes, sir; we used common dice; not tatts."
"You'd best keep the tatts till he's drunk," said Killigrew drily, "for I think you'll find my lord has a head on his shoulders when he's sober."

1897, Frances Heath Freshfield, The Wrothams of Wrotham Court, page 73:

(UK, gambling, slang, archaic) A die, especially one that is loaded.


on the nose

It was three o'clock. They were running the third race at Santa Anita and he had ten bucks on the nose.

1941 February, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Fun in an Artist’s Studio”, in Esquire:

I once knew a fag dip into the till—not the whole two thousand at once on the nose win or Sing Sing.[…]

1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 128:

(slang, gambling, of a bet on a horse) To finish first.


back-to-back

(poker slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).


miser

miser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
misant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
misé (participle past)
mise (first-person indicative present singular)
mises (indicative present second-person singular)
mise (indicative present singular third-person)
misons (first-person indicative plural present)
misez (indicative plural present second-person)
misent (indicative plural present third-person)
misais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
misais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
misait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
misions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
misiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
misaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
misai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
misas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
misa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
misâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
misâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
misèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
miserai (first-person future indicative singular)
miseras (future indicative second-person singular)
misera (future indicative singular third-person)
miserons (first-person future indicative plural)
miserez (future indicative plural second-person)
miseront (future indicative plural third-person)
miserais (conditional first-person singular)
miserais (conditional second-person singular)
miserait (conditional singular third-person)
miserions (conditional first-person plural)
miseriez (conditional plural second-person)
miseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
mise (first-person present singular subjunctive)
mises (present second-person singular subjunctive)
mise (present singular subjunctive third-person)
misions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
misiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
misent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
misasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
misasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
misât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
misassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
misassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
misassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
mise (imperative second-person singular)
misons (first-person imperative plural)
misez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Romanian: miza


turbo

From turbocharged (“increased power”). Also figurative, from the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.

This is a turbo tournament: the blinds increase every 5 minutes! Level 1 = 150/300; level 2 = 200/400; etc.

(said of a poker tournament) With rapidly-increasing blind levels.


kasa

kasá (canonical)
kasâ (canonical)
ᜃᜐ (Baybayin)

Borrowed from Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), from Late Latin captiāre (“to catch”).

(gambling) covering bet or acceptance of a bet


馬子

/mä²¹⁴ d͡z̥z̩⁴/

/maː¹³ t͡siː³⁵/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡si⁵⁵⁴/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁴¹/

/mä²¹⁴ d͡z̥z̩⁴/

/maː¹³ t͡siː³⁵/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡si⁵⁵⁴/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁴¹/

Chinese given name
Emperor Gaozu of Tang
Han Dynasty
Naming taboo

During the Han Dynasty, the emperor's commode was called 虎子 (hǔzǐ). However, the grandfather of Emperor Gaozu of Tang was called 李虎 (Lǐ Hǔ). Because it was forbidden for common items to contain the given names of members of the imperial family (see Naming taboo), 虎子 was changed to 馬子／马子 (mǎzi), which morphed later into 馬桶／马桶 (mǎtǒng).

zh-m

馬子／马子 (mǎzi)

馬桶／马桶 (mǎtǒng)


poker face

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Though he thought he had a perfect poker face, he had a number of tells his opponents soon learned.

(poker) An impassive facial expression cultivated to prevent other players from determining whether one's actions in the game are the result of a quality hand, or of bluffing.

撲克臉 /扑克脸

impassive facial expression preventing determining whether one's actions in the game are the result of a quality hand or of bluffing


pari

pari (nominative singular)
parit (nominative plural)
pari (accusative nominative singular)
parit (accusative nominative plural)
parin (accusative genitive singular)
parit (accusative genitive plural)
parin (genitive singular)
parien (genitive plural)
paria (partitive singular)
pareja (partitive plural)
parissa (inessive singular)
pareissa (inessive plural)
parista (elative singular)
pareista (elative plural)
pariin (illative singular)
pareihin (illative plural)
parilla (adessive singular)
pareilla (adessive plural)
parilta (ablative singular)
pareilta (ablative plural)
parille (allative singular)
pareille (allative plural)
parina (essive singular)
pareina (essive plural)
pariksi (singular translative)
pareiksi (plural translative)
paritta (abessive singular)
pareitta (abessive plural)
parein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
parini (nominative singular)
parini (nominative plural)
parini (accusative nominative singular)
parini (accusative nominative plural)
parini (accusative genitive singular)
parini (accusative genitive plural)
parini (genitive singular)
parieni (genitive plural)
pariani (partitive singular)
parejani (partitive plural)
parissani (inessive singular)
pareissani (inessive plural)
paristani (elative singular)
pareistani (elative plural)
pariini (illative singular)
pareihini (illative plural)
parillani (adessive singular)
pareillani (adessive plural)
pariltani (ablative singular)
pareiltani (ablative plural)
parilleni (allative singular)
pareilleni (allative plural)
parinani (essive singular)
pareinani (essive plural)
parikseni (singular translative)
pareikseni (plural translative)
parittani (abessive singular)
pareittani (abessive plural)
pareineni (comitative plural)
parisi (nominative singular)
parisi (nominative plural)
parisi (accusative nominative singular)
parisi (accusative nominative plural)
parisi (accusative genitive singular)
parisi (accusative genitive plural)
parisi (genitive singular)
pariesi (genitive plural)
pariasi (partitive singular)
parejasi (partitive plural)
parissasi (inessive singular)
pareissasi (inessive plural)
paristasi (elative singular)
pareistasi (elative plural)
pariisi (illative singular)
pareihisi (illative plural)
parillasi (adessive singular)
pareillasi (adessive plural)
pariltasi (ablative singular)
pareiltasi (ablative plural)
parillesi (allative singular)
pareillesi (allative plural)
parinasi (essive singular)
pareinasi (essive plural)
pariksesi (singular translative)
pareiksesi (plural translative)
parittasi (abessive singular)
pareittasi (abessive plural)
pareinesi (comitative plural)
parimme (nominative singular)
parimme (nominative plural)
parimme (accusative nominative singular)
parimme (accusative nominative plural)
parimme (accusative genitive singular)
parimme (accusative genitive plural)
parimme (genitive singular)
pariemme (genitive plural)
pariamme (partitive singular)
parejamme (partitive plural)
parissamme (inessive singular)
pareissamme (inessive plural)
paristamme (elative singular)
pareistamme (elative plural)
pariimme (illative singular)
pareihimme (illative plural)
parillamme (adessive singular)
pareillamme (adessive plural)
pariltamme (ablative singular)
pareiltamme (ablative plural)
parillemme (allative singular)
pareillemme (allative plural)
parinamme (essive singular)
pareinamme (essive plural)
pariksemme (singular translative)
pareiksemme (plural translative)
parittamme (abessive singular)
pareittamme (abessive plural)
pareinemme (comitative plural)
parinne (nominative singular)
parinne (nominative plural)
parinne (accusative nominative singular)
parinne (accusative nominative plural)
parinne (accusative genitive singular)
parinne (accusative genitive plural)
parinne (genitive singular)
parienne (genitive plural)
parianne (partitive singular)
parejanne (partitive plural)
parissanne (inessive singular)
pareissanne (inessive plural)
paristanne (elative singular)
pareistanne (elative plural)
pariinne (illative singular)
pareihinne (illative plural)
parillanne (adessive singular)
pareillanne (adessive plural)
pariltanne (ablative singular)
pareiltanne (ablative plural)
parillenne (allative singular)
pareillenne (allative plural)
parinanne (essive singular)
pareinanne (essive plural)
pariksenne (singular translative)
pareiksenne (plural translative)
parittanne (abessive singular)
pareittanne (abessive plural)
pareinenne (comitative plural)
parinsa (nominative singular)
parinsa (nominative plural)
parinsa (accusative nominative singular)
parinsa (accusative nominative plural)
parinsa (accusative genitive singular)
parinsa (accusative genitive plural)
parinsa (genitive singular)
pariensa (genitive plural)
pariaan (partitive singular)
pariansa (partitive singular)
parejaan (partitive plural)
parejansa (partitive plural)
parissaan (inessive singular)
parissansa (inessive singular)
pareissaan (inessive plural)
pareissansa (inessive plural)
paristaan (elative singular)
paristansa (elative singular)
pareistaan (elative plural)
pareistansa (elative plural)
pariinsa (illative singular)
pareihinsa (illative plural)
parillaan (adessive singular)
parillansa (adessive singular)
pareillaan (adessive plural)
pareillansa (adessive plural)
pariltaan (ablative singular)
pariltansa (ablative singular)
pareiltaan (ablative plural)
pareiltansa (ablative plural)
parilleen (allative singular)
parillensa (allative singular)
pareilleen (allative plural)
pareillensa (allative plural)
parinaan (essive singular)
parinansa (essive singular)
pareinaan (essive plural)
pareinansa (essive plural)
parikseen (singular translative)
pariksensa (singular translative)
pareikseen (plural translative)
pareiksensa (plural translative)
parittaan (abessive singular)
parittansa (abessive singular)
pareittaan (abessive plural)
pareittansa (abessive plural)
pareineen (comitative plural)
pareinensa (comitative plural)

→ Ingrian: pari

Borrowed from Old Swedish par, from Middle Low German par, from Latin pār (whence also English pair, Spanish par).

ässäpari

(card games, poker) pair (two cards of the same rank)


totalizator

totalizator (nominative singular)
totalizatory (nominative plural)
totalizatoru (genitive singular)
totalizatorów (genitive plural)
totalizatorowi (dative singular)
totalizatorom (dative plural)
totalizator (accusative singular)
totalizatory (accusative plural)
totalizatorem (instrumental singular)
totalizatorami (instrumental plural)
totalizatorze (locative singular)
totalizatorach (locative plural)
totalizatorze (singular vocative)
totalizatory (plural vocative)

(gambling) totalizator (gambling game in the form of betting, the participants of which typify the results of sports competitions)

(gambling) totalizator (computer-like machine, at a racecourse, that registers bets and distributes the total amount bet among those who win)


panos

panos (nominative singular)
panokset (nominative plural)
panos (accusative nominative singular)
panokset (accusative nominative plural)
panoksen (accusative genitive singular)
panokset (accusative genitive plural)
panoksen (genitive singular)
panosten (genitive plural)
panoksien (genitive plural)
panosta (partitive singular)
panoksia (partitive plural)
panoksessa (inessive singular)
panoksissa (inessive plural)
panoksesta (elative singular)
panoksista (elative plural)
panokseen (illative singular)
panoksiin (illative plural)
panoksella (adessive singular)
panoksilla (adessive plural)
panokselta (ablative singular)
panoksilta (ablative plural)
panokselle (allative singular)
panoksille (allative plural)
panoksena (essive singular)
panoksina (essive plural)
panokseksi (singular translative)
panoksiksi (plural translative)
panoksetta (abessive singular)
panoksitta (abessive plural)
panoksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
panokseni (nominative singular)
panokseni (nominative plural)
panokseni (accusative nominative singular)
panokseni (accusative nominative plural)
panokseni (accusative genitive singular)
panokseni (accusative genitive plural)
panokseni (genitive singular)
panosteni (genitive plural)
panoksieni (genitive plural)
panostani (partitive singular)
panoksiani (partitive plural)
panoksessani (inessive singular)
panoksissani (inessive plural)
panoksestani (elative singular)
panoksistani (elative plural)
panokseeni (illative singular)
panoksiini (illative plural)
panoksellani (adessive singular)
panoksillani (adessive plural)
panokseltani (ablative singular)
panoksiltani (ablative plural)
panokselleni (allative singular)
panoksilleni (allative plural)
panoksenani (essive singular)
panoksinani (essive plural)
panoksekseni (singular translative)
panoksikseni (plural translative)
panoksettani (abessive singular)
panoksittani (abessive plural)
panoksineni (comitative plural)
panoksesi (nominative singular)
panoksesi (nominative plural)
panoksesi (accusative nominative singular)
panoksesi (accusative nominative plural)
panoksesi (accusative genitive singular)
panoksesi (accusative genitive plural)
panoksesi (genitive singular)
panostesi (genitive plural)
panoksiesi (genitive plural)
panostasi (partitive singular)
panoksiasi (partitive plural)
panoksessasi (inessive singular)
panoksissasi (inessive plural)
panoksestasi (elative singular)
panoksistasi (elative plural)
panokseesi (illative singular)
panoksiisi (illative plural)
panoksellasi (adessive singular)
panoksillasi (adessive plural)
panokseltasi (ablative singular)
panoksiltasi (ablative plural)
panoksellesi (allative singular)
panoksillesi (allative plural)
panoksenasi (essive singular)
panoksinasi (essive plural)
panokseksesi (singular translative)
panoksiksesi (plural translative)
panoksettasi (abessive singular)
panoksittasi (abessive plural)
panoksinesi (comitative plural)
panoksemme (nominative singular)
panoksemme (nominative plural)
panoksemme (accusative nominative singular)
panoksemme (accusative nominative plural)
panoksemme (accusative genitive singular)
panoksemme (accusative genitive plural)
panoksemme (genitive singular)
panostemme (genitive plural)
panoksiemme (genitive plural)
panostamme (partitive singular)
panoksiamme (partitive plural)
panoksessamme (inessive singular)
panoksissamme (inessive plural)
panoksestamme (elative singular)
panoksistamme (elative plural)
panokseemme (illative singular)
panoksiimme (illative plural)
panoksellamme (adessive singular)
panoksillamme (adessive plural)
panokseltamme (ablative singular)
panoksiltamme (ablative plural)
panoksellemme (allative singular)
panoksillemme (allative plural)
panoksenamme (essive singular)
panoksinamme (essive plural)
panokseksemme (singular translative)
panoksiksemme (plural translative)
panoksettamme (abessive singular)
panoksittamme (abessive plural)
panoksinemme (comitative plural)
panoksenne (nominative singular)
panoksenne (nominative plural)
panoksenne (accusative nominative singular)
panoksenne (accusative nominative plural)
panoksenne (accusative genitive singular)
panoksenne (accusative genitive plural)
panoksenne (genitive singular)
panostenne (genitive plural)
panoksienne (genitive plural)
panostanne (partitive singular)
panoksianne (partitive plural)
panoksessanne (inessive singular)
panoksissanne (inessive plural)
panoksestanne (elative singular)
panoksistanne (elative plural)
panokseenne (illative singular)
panoksiinne (illative plural)
panoksellanne (adessive singular)
panoksillanne (adessive plural)
panokseltanne (ablative singular)
panoksiltanne (ablative plural)
panoksellenne (allative singular)
panoksillenne (allative plural)
panoksenanne (essive singular)
panoksinanne (essive plural)
panokseksenne (singular translative)
panoksiksenne (plural translative)
panoksettanne (abessive singular)
panoksittanne (abessive plural)
panoksinenne (comitative plural)
panoksensa (nominative singular)
panoksensa (nominative plural)
panoksensa (accusative nominative singular)
panoksensa (accusative nominative plural)
panoksensa (accusative genitive singular)
panoksensa (accusative genitive plural)
panoksensa (genitive singular)
panostensa (genitive plural)
panoksiensa (genitive plural)
panostaan (partitive singular)
panostansa (partitive singular)
panoksiaan (partitive plural)
panoksiansa (partitive plural)
panoksessaan (inessive singular)
panoksessansa (inessive singular)
panoksissaan (inessive plural)
panoksissansa (inessive plural)
panoksestaan (elative singular)
panoksestansa (elative singular)
panoksistaan (elative plural)
panoksistansa (elative plural)
panokseensa (illative singular)
panoksiinsa (illative plural)
panoksellaan (adessive singular)
panoksellansa (adessive singular)
panoksillaan (adessive plural)
panoksillansa (adessive plural)
panokseltaan (ablative singular)
panokseltansa (ablative singular)
panoksiltaan (ablative plural)
panoksiltansa (ablative plural)
panokselleen (allative singular)
panoksellensa (allative singular)
panoksilleen (allative plural)
panoksillensa (allative plural)
panoksenaan (essive singular)
panoksenansa (essive singular)
panoksinaan (essive plural)
panoksinansa (essive plural)
panoksekseen (singular translative)
panokseksensa (singular translative)
panoksikseen (plural translative)
panoksiksensa (plural translative)
panoksettaan (abessive singular)
panoksettansa (abessive singular)
panoksittaan (abessive plural)
panoksittansa (abessive plural)
panoksineen (comitative plural)
panoksinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *panos. Equivalent to panna (“to put”) + -os.


overfull

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[…] let's say the flop comes 9-9-8, with the open pair on top. One player has J-T-9-8 for the overfull—9s full of 8s for the nut full house—while another player has 8-8-7-6 for 8s full of 9s and the "underfull". The player with the underfull is both getting smashed and drawing dead.

2008, Jeff Hwang, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 5:

(poker) A full house that beats someone else's full house.


panostaa

panostan (first-person indicative present singular)
en panosta (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen panostanut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole panostanut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
panostat (indicative present second-person singular)
et panosta (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet panostanut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole panostanut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
panostaa (indicative present singular third-person)
ei panosta (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on panostanut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole panostanut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
panostamme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme panosta (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme panostaneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole panostaneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
panostatte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette panosta (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette panostaneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole panostaneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
panostavat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät panosta (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat panostaneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole panostaneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
panostetaan (indicative passive present)
ei panosteta (indicative negative passive present)
on panostettu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole panostettu (indicative negative passive perfect)
panostin (first-person indicative past singular)
en panostanut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin panostanut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut panostanut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
panostit (indicative past second-person singular)
et panostanut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit panostanut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut panostanut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
panosti (indicative past singular third-person)
ei panostanut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli panostanut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut panostanut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
panostimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme panostaneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme panostaneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet panostaneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
panostitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette panostaneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte panostaneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet panostaneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
panostivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät panostaneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat panostaneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet panostaneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
panostettiin (indicative passive past)
ei panostettu (indicative negative passive past)
oli panostettu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut panostettu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
panostaisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en panostaisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin panostanut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi panostanut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
panostaisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et panostaisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit panostanut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi panostanut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
panostaisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei panostaisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi panostanut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi panostanut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
panostaisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme panostaisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme panostaneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi panostaneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
panostaisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette panostaisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte panostaneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi panostaneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
panostaisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät panostaisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat panostaneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi panostaneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
panostettaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei panostettaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi panostettu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi panostettu (conditional negative passive perfect)
panosta (imperative present second-person singular)
älä panosta (imperative negative present second-person singular)
panostakoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön panostako (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon panostanut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko panostanut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
panostakaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme panostako (first-person imperative negative plural present)
panostakaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää panostako (imperative negative plural present second-person)
panostakoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt panostako (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot panostaneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko panostaneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
panostettakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön panostettako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon panostettu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko panostettu (imperative negative passive perfect)
panostanen (first-person potential present singular)
en panostane (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen panostanut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene panostanut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
panostanet (potential present second-person singular)
et panostane (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet panostanut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene panostanut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
panostanee (potential present singular third-person)
ei panostane (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee panostanut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene panostanut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
panostanemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme panostane (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme panostaneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene panostaneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
panostanette (plural potential present second-person)
ette panostane (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette panostaneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene panostaneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
panostanevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät panostane (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät panostaneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene panostaneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
panostettaneen (passive potential present)
ei panostettane (negative passive potential present)
lienee panostettu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene panostettu (negative passive perfect potential)
panostaa (infinitive infinitive-i)
panostava (active participle present)
panostettava (participle passive present)
panostaakseni (first-person possessive singular)
panostaaksemme (first-person plural possessive)
panostaaksesi (possessive second-person singular)
panostaaksenne (plural possessive second-person)
panostaakseen (possessive third-person)
panostaaksensa (possessive third-person)
panostanut (infinitive-i-long past)
panostettu (infinitive-i-long past)
panostaessa (inessive second-person)
panostettaessa (inessive second-person)
panostama (agent)
panostaessani (first-person possessive singular)
panostaessamme (first-person plural possessive)
panostaessasi (possessive second-person singular)
panostaessanne (plural possessive second-person)
panostaessaan (possessive third-person)
panostaessansa (possessive third-person)
panostamaton (inessive negative second-person)
panostaen (instructive second-person)
panostamassa (inessive third-person)
panostamasta (elative third-person)
panostamaan (illative third-person)
panostamalla (adessive third-person)
panostamatta (abessive third-person)
panostaman (instructive third-person)
panostettaman (instructive third-person)
panostaminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
panostamaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
panostamaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
panostamaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
panostamaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
panostamaisillaan (possessive third-person)
panostamaisillansa (possessive third-person)

[ˈpɑ̝no̞s̠tɑ̝ː(ʔ)]


full house

→ Japanese: フルハウス (furu hausu)

→ Portuguese: full house

→ Russian: фул-ха́ус (ful-xáus)

This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess.

1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live:

(poker) A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.


full house

Unadapted borrowing from English full house.

ubor

(poker) full house (three of a kind and a pair)


lannet

(two-up) A bat with a slot to conceal a third coin which is used for cheating (that coin being either a jack or a gray).


hard head

(two-up) A crooked organiser of a two-up game, who would cheat players out of their money.


three-up

(gambling) A gambling game played with three coins.


jai alai

From English jai alai, from Spanish, from Basque jai (“festival”) + alai (“merry”).

an illegal lottery based on the scores of jai alai games


lead out

en-verb

lead out (third-person singular simple present leads out, present participle leading out, simple past and past participle led out)

leads out (present singular third-person)
leading out (participle present)
led out (participle past)
led out (past)

(poker slang) To bet into a pot postflop from the first betting position.


ful

ful (nominative singular)
fule (nominative plural)
fulu (genitive singular)
fuli (genitive plural)
fulowi (dative singular)
fulom (dative plural)
ful (accusative singular)
fule (accusative plural)
fulem (instrumental singular)
fulami (instrumental plural)
fulu (locative singular)
fulach (locative plural)
fulu (singular vocative)
fule (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English full. Doublet of pełny and plenum.


ful

fuluri (plural)
ful (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
fulul (accusative definite nominative singular)
fuluri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
fulurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
ful (indefinite singular)
fulului (definite singular)
fuluri (indefinite plural)
fulurilor (definite plural)
fulule (singular vocative)
fulurilor (plural vocative)


пара

ru-noun+

па́ра • (pára) f inan (genitive па́ры, nominative plural па́ры, genitive plural пар, relational adjective па́рный, diminutive па́рочка)

па́ра (canonical)
pára (romanization)
па́ры (genitive)
па́ры (nominative plural)
пар (genitive plural)
па́рный (adjective relational)
па́рочка (diminutive)
па́ра (nominative singular)
па́ры (nominative plural)
па́ры (genitive singular)
па́р (genitive plural)
па́ре (dative singular)
па́рам (dative plural)
па́ру (accusative singular)
па́ры (accusative plural)
па́рой (instrumental singular)
па́рою (instrumental singular)
па́рами (instrumental plural)
па́ре (prepositional singular)
па́рах (plural prepositional)
па́ра (dated nominative singular)
па́ры (dated nominative plural)
па́ры (dated genitive singular)
па́ръ (dated genitive plural)
па́рѣ (dated dative singular)
па́рамъ (dated dative plural)
па́ру (accusative dated singular)
па́ры (accusative dated plural)
па́рой (dated instrumental singular)
па́рою (dated instrumental singular)
па́рами (dated instrumental plural)
па́рѣ (dated prepositional singular)
па́рахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Yakut: паара (paara, “pair, couple”)

From Polish para, from Middle High German pâr (German Paar), from Latin pār.

Первый из них, одетый в летнюю серенькую пару

1969, Булгаков, chapter 1, in Мастер и Маргарита:

The first of them, dressed in a gray summer suit

Pervyj iz nix, odetyj v letnjuju serenʹkuju paru


buster

Originally a dialectal variant of burster; later influenced by bust + -er.
The combining form of the term has appeared from the early 20th century but been especially prolific during three periods: in the 1930s, owing to the success of the radio series Gang Busters; in the 1940s, owing to its appearance as military slang; and in the 1980s, owing to the success of the movie Ghostbusters.

rebenta-

person or thing that breaks or overwhelms

Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 283:

To make six-eight, natural dice, or busters, he would take unspotted dice and then grind and color only the spots he wanted.

1977, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, The Development of the Law of Gambling: 1776-1976, page 423:

(gambling, slang) A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.


up the ante

en-verb

up the ante (third-person singular simple present ups the ante, present participle upping the ante, simple past and past participle upped the ante)

ups the ante (present singular third-person)
upping the ante (participle present)
upped the ante (participle past)
upped the ante (past)

With three aces and two jacks, he thought it was safe to up the ante.

(poker) To raise the stakes of a hand of poker.


five card stud

(poker) Alternative spelling of five-card stud


stud poker

(poker) Any of several versions of poker in which some cards are dealt face-down and some face-up.


five-card stud

(poker) a simple form of stud poker where each individual receives five cards


King Kong

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(poker slang) Two kings as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.


pooper

(gambling) A selection in a slot machine game that ends the picking bonus.


showdown

en-noun

showdown (countable and uncountable, plural showdowns)

(poker) The final round in a poker match, where the all remaining players' cards have to be put down on the table and shown.


hustler

A male prostitute who sells his services to men.

面首

a male prostitute who sells his services to men


blocker

→ Polish: bloker, blokers

From Middle English blocker, blokker, bloker, blokkere, equivalent to block + -er.

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Agent noun of block (“obstruct or prevent”); something that blocks something else.


sandbag

(poker) A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.


sandbag

en-verb

sandbag (third-person singular simple present sandbags, present participle sandbagging, simple past and past participle sandbagged)

sandbags (present singular third-person)
sandbagging (participle present)
sandbagged (participle past)
sandbagged (past)

Some felt that Roberts was sandbagging, because his mastery of the 250s wasn't really showing in practice or the heat.

1976, Cycle World Magazine, volume 15, number 1 & 2, page 83:

The sandbagging manager is similarly deceptive. He has mastered the art of seeming harmless and without power, but in reality he carries far more authority and clout than one would be led to believe.

1976, Richard H. Buskirk, Handbook of Managerial Tactics, Boston: Cahners Books, →ISBN, page 32:

When playing against a wild man, try to be in a position to pick off his bluffs without too many players remaining behind you who can benefit from the action by sandbagging (passing on big hands and waiting for “sport” to whoop up the betting).

1981, Nesmith C. Ankeny, Poker Strategy: Winning with Game Theory, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 9:

Accordingly, we may establish as our principle that the time to sandbag is when you have three of a kind or better, when there are at least five players to act after you, and when your hand is made up of low cards.

1981, Oswald Jacoby, Oswald Jacoby on Poker, Garden City, N.Y.: Dolphin Books, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 36:

(figurative, intransitive, originally US) To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage; (originally poker) to pretend to have a weak hand, as a strategy.


กิน

gin (romanization)
การกิน (abstract-noun)

From Proto-Tai *kɯɲᴬ (“to eat”). Cognate with Lao ກິນ (kin), Northern Thai ᨠᩥ᩠ᨶ, Khün ᨠᩥ᩠ᨶ, Lü ᦂᦲᧃ (k̇iin), Tai Dam ꪀꪲꪙ, Tai Nüa ᥐᥤᥢ (kin), Shan ၵိၼ် (kǐn), Ahom 𑜀𑜢𑜃𑜫 (kin), Saek กิ๋น, Zhuang gwn, Nong Zhuang gwn, Bouyei genl. Compare also Proto-Austronesian *kaən (whence Tagalog kain, Malay makan).


suited

en-adj

suited (comparative more suited, superlative most suited)

more suited (comparative)
most suited (superlative)

Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind

(poker, of two or more cards) Of the same suit.


betting

If I were a betting man, I'd wager my next pay check he couldn't do that again.


betting

Once the field was prepared, and preliminaries of the game all settled, the bettings all made and goods all “staked,” night came on without the appearance of any players on the ground.


sor

sorok (plural)
sor (nominative singular)
sorok (nominative plural)
sort (accusative singular)
sorokat (accusative plural)
sornak (dative singular)
soroknak (dative plural)
sorral (instrumental singular)
sorokkal (instrumental plural)
sorért (causal-final singular)
sorokért (causal-final plural)
sorrá (singular translative)
sorokká (plural translative)
sorig (singular terminative)
sorokig (plural terminative)
sorként (essive-formal singular)
sorokként (essive-formal plural)
sorban (inessive singular)
sorokban (inessive plural)
soron (singular superessive)
sorokon (plural superessive)
sornál (adessive singular)
soroknál (adessive plural)
sorba (illative singular)
sorokba (illative plural)
sorra (singular sublative)
sorokra (plural sublative)
sorhoz (allative singular)
sorokhoz (allative plural)
sorból (elative singular)
sorokból (elative plural)
sorról (delative singular)
sorokról (delative plural)
sortól (ablative singular)
soroktól (ablative plural)
soré (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
soroké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
soréi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
sorokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
sorom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
soraim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
sorod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
soraid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sora (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
sorai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sorunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
soraink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
sorotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
soraitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
soruk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
soraik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

→ Pannonian Rusyn: шор (šor)


strip poker

A variant of poker where the loser removes his/her clothes.


straddle

en-verb

straddle (third-person singular simple present straddles, present participle straddling, simple past and past participle straddled)

straddles (present singular third-person)
straddling (participle present)
straddled (participle past)
straddled (past)

As a verb, attested since the 1560s. Most likely, an alteration of dialectal striddle. The noun is first attested in the 1610s.

(poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).


straddle

(poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.

sokkokorotus

poker: raise made prior to receiving cards


superfecta

A method of betting in which the bettor, in order to win, must pick the first four finishers of a race in the correct sequence.


cackle

cackle (third-person singular simple present cackles, present participle cackling, simple past and past participle cackled)

cackles (present singular third-person)
cackling (participle present)
cackled (participle past)
cackled (past)

From Middle English caclen, cakelen, perhaps from Old English *caclian, *cacolian, from Proto-West Germanic *kakulōn, *kakilōn (“to cackle, gaggle, yelp, snarl”), perhaps of imitative origin.
Compare Dutch kakelen (“to cackle”), German Low German kakeln (“to cackle”), German kakeln (“to blather”), Danish kagle (“to cackle”), Swedish kackla (“to cackle”). Compare also Old English cahhetan, ċeahhettan (“to laugh loudly; cackle”), German gackern (“to cackle”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

Danny cackled the dice furiously in his cupped hand, then rolled them so they stopped inches from Slattery's hands. The result was the same as before – a seven.

1941, Mignon Good Eberhart, The Third Mystery Book: Six Short Mysteries, page 120:

[…] they spun all right, or so it seemed, and hit the wall all right, or so it seemed, but bottom line was this: The stirring of the dice was merely cackling, the cubes artfully framed so that the spots in the kid's fists showed 4‐4 up‐right and weren't really rattled but rather, held in control by the pinky, forefinger and thumb; […]

2015, Jack Engelhard, The Prince of Dice, page 11:

(transitive, gambling, slang) To pretend to rattle (dice) in one's hand while gripping them so that they maintain their orientation.


skinner

From Middle English skynner, skinner, skynnere, schynnere, equivalent to skin + -er. Cognate with Old Norse skinnari (“skinner”), Old Swedish skinnare (“skinner”), Middle Low German schinder, schinner (“skinner”).

(gambling, slang) An instance of skinning the lamb, i.e. a bookmaker winning all of his bets where nobody backed the winner.


cowboys

(poker slang) A pair of kings as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.


under the gun

James will be under the gun for the first hand of the final table.

(poker) Of, pertaining to, or in the situation of first player to act on the first round of betting.


quinella

From American Spanish quiniela (“sporting bet or pool”); US from 1942.

bor

1954, Michigan Department of State Compilation Commission, 1954 Michigan Administrative Code, page 38,
All tickets on the quinella will be calculated in an entirely separate pool.

A few tracks offer exactas and quinallas on the same races.

1989, Charles S. Romanelli, How to Make Money in One Day at the Track, page 166:

The track quinella paid $38.00 for a $2 wager, the track exacta paid $70.60 for a $2 wager.

2004, Jim Kilby, Jim Fox, Anthony F. Lucas, Casino Operations Management, page 355:

(gambling, horse racing) A form of bet in which the bettor predicts the first two finishers in a race, without concern for the order of finishing.


connector

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(poker) Any of a group of cards of consecutive face value, useful in forming straights etc.


Cowboys

(poker slang) two kings as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em


dispatcher

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First see that each die has all six figures upon it, for some dice are dispatchers, made with double numbers, […]

1897, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's Complete Hoyle, page 565:

He also knew, with another proficient glance, that the dice the youngster jiggled were likely a pair of dispatchers—so named because they effectively "dispatched" their intended targets: suckers.

2013, Lisa Plumley, The Honor-Bound Gambler, page 9:

(gambling, slang) Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers.


fill up

en-verb

fill up (third-person singular simple present fills up, present participle filling up, simple past and past participle filled up)

fills up (present singular third-person)
filling up (participle present)
filled up (participle past)
filled up (past)

(poker slang) To make a full house on the turn or the river.


bato

From Proto-Philippine *batu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.


kolor

kolorek (diminutive)
kolor (nominative singular)
kolory (nominative plural)
koloru (genitive singular)
kolorów (genitive plural)
kolorowi (dative singular)
kolorom (dative plural)
kolor (accusative singular)
kolory (accusative plural)
kolorem (instrumental singular)
kolorami (instrumental plural)
kolorze (locative singular)
kolorach (locative plural)
kolorze (singular vocative)
kolory (plural vocative)


wong

wong (third-person singular simple present wongs, present participle wonging, simple past and past participle wonged)

wongs (present singular third-person)
wonging (participle present)
wonged (participle past)
wonged (past)

(gambling) To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.