artificial

artificial (comparative more artificial, superlative most artificial)

more artificial (comparative)
most artificial (superlative)

→ Welsh: artiffisial

/ˌɑː(ɹ).təˈfɪʃ.əl/

[ˌɑːrtɪˈfɪʃl]

From Middle English artificial (“man-made”) via Old French (modern French artificiel), from Latin artificiālis from artificium (“skill”), from artifex, from ars (“skill”), and -fex, from facere (“to make”). Displaced native Old English cræftlīċ.

An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.

1999, Edwin B. Kantar, Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense, page 191:

North makes an artificial call of 3♧, the cheapest suit at the 3 level, to show a very poor hand. What North holds in clubs doesn't matter at all.

2008, David Galt, Teach Yourself Visually Bridge, page 219:

(bridge) Conveying some meaning other than the actual contents of one's hand.


penultimate

From Latin paenultimus, from paene (“almost”) + ultimus (“last”), equivalent to pene- + ultimate.

Penultimate, the. — Beginning with the lowest card but one of the suit you lead originally, if it contains more than four cards.

1876, Arthur Campbell-Walker, The Correct Card, Glossary page xiii:

(uncommon) A penult, a next to last, particularly:

(card games, uncommon) The penultimate (next to lowest) card in a suit.


sequence

en-noun

sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)

From Middle English sequence, borrowed from Old French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.

der

(card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.

последователност

meld of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit


rifling

(card games) The act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards.


twenty-one

They were to spend many an evening together sitting round the old kitchen table playing twentyone ….

1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 398


game

en-noun

game (countable and uncountable, plural games)

→ Brazilian Portuguese: game

→ Dutch: gamen, game

→ Irish: géim

→ Japanese: ゲーム

→ Korean: 게임 (geim), 겜 (gem)

→ Norman: gamme

→ Norwegian: gamen, game

→ Spanish: game

→ Welsh: gêm

→ Finnish: geimit

From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.

cog

massively multiplayer online role-playing game

en:any playful or competitive activity
en:bonus point for highest hand

(card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.

kortti

card games: point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum


ABC

en-noun

ABC (countable and uncountable, plural ABCs or ABC's)

From Middle English abece, ABC, from the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet.

(poker) A straightforward, uniform playing style, often focusing on betting for value, folding weak hands, and avoiding bluffing.


cinque

→ Japanese: シンク (shinku)

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English cink, from Middle French cinq, from Latin cīnque, variant of quīnque. The archaic spelling cinq is taken from modern French cinq, whereas the standard spelling is perhaps influenced by Italian cinque or a misspelling of the French. The variant pronunciation /sæŋk/ is based on Modern French. Doublet of five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.

doublet

Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix.

1775, “a Connoisseur”, “Containing an Account of the Game of Back-gammon, with the most approved Method of playing at it, and the Rules of the Game. Together with the Artifices and Legerdemains that are frequently practised at it.”, in Annals of Gaming; or, The Fair Player’s Sure Guide. Containing Original Treatises on the following Games. […], London: […] G. Allen, […], pages 181–182:

The firſt beſt Throw upon the Dice is eſteemed Aces, as it ſtops the Six-Point in the outer Table, and ſecures the Cinque in your own, whereby your Adverſary’s two Men upon your Ace-Point cannot get out with either Quatre, Cinque, or Six.

1775, “Introduction to the Game of Back-Gammon; With the most approved Method of playing at it”, in Charles Jones, editor, Hoyle’s Games Improved. Being Practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, […], London: […] J. Rivington and J. Wilkie, […], page 170:

(dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.


quatre

Borrowed from French quatre. Doublet of cuatro and four.

(archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.


quatorze

(card games) The four aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, in the game of piquet, any of these counting as fourteen points.


pitch

en-noun

pitch (countable and uncountable, plural pitches)

→ Galician: piche

→ Portuguese: piche

From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".


pitch

en-verb

pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched or (obsolete) pight)

pitches (present singular third-person)
pitching (participle present)
pitched (participle past)
pitched (past)
pight (obsolete participle past)
pight (obsolete past)

Spanish: pichar

From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), from Old English *piċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkijan, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to pick, peck”), whence Middle English pikken, picken (“to pick, pierce”), modern English pick.

uhrata

card games: discard a card for some gain

(transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.


dummy

мор

bridge: the partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand

(card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.


uno

PIE word
 *h₁óynos
Learned borrowing from Spanish uno m (“one”, numeral).

lbor

(Uno) A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw two cards.


couleur

Borrowed from French couleur. Doublet of colour.

(card games) A suit of cards, in certain French card games.


void

→ Welsh: foed

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

(bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.


void

üreg

fluid mechanics: a pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation

(bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.


stud

At an old saloon on a street of mud / There at a table, dealing stud / Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue"

1969, Shel Silverstein (lyrics and music), “A Boy Named Sue”, performed by Johnny Cash:

(poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.


call

en-verb

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or (archaic) call'd)

calls (present singular third-person)
calling (participle present)
called (participle past)
called (past)
call'd (archaic participle past)
call'd (archaic past)
call (infinitive)

→ Kashubian: kolowac (United States)

From Middle English callen, from Old English ceallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
cognates
* Scots call
* caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”),
* German kallen (“to call”) obsolete
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).

meegaan

to match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet

call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel

call someone everything but a child of God

desperate times call for desperate measures

I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise, or fold.

(heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.

(intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600!

(intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)


call

en-noun

call (countable and uncountable, plural calls)

→ Armenian: քոլ (kʻol)

→ Georgian: ქოლი (koli)

the call is coming from inside the house

(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.


tank

→ Afrikaans: tenk

→ Albanian: tank

→ Assamese: টেংকি (teṅki)

→ Asturian: tanque

→ Azerbaijani: tank

→ Bashkir: танк (tank)

→ Belarusian: танк (tank)

→ Bengali: ট্যাংক (ṭêṅko)

→ Burmese: တင့်ကား (tang.ka:)

→ Buryat: танк (tank)

→ Catalan: tanc

→ Chechen: танк (tank)

→ Chinese:

Mandarin: 坦克 (tǎnkè)

→ Chuvash: танк (tank)

→ Czech: tank

→ Danish: tank

→ Dutch: tank

→ Dzongkha: ཏེངཀ (tengk)

→ Eastern Mari: танк (tank)

→ Estonian: tank

→ Fiji Hindi: tanki

→ Finnish: tankki

→ French: tank

→ Galician: tanque

→ Georgian: ტანკი (ṭanḳi)

→ German: Tank

→ Greek: τανκ (tank)

→ Greenlandic: tanki

→ Hebrew: טנק (tank)

desctree

→ Hindi: टंकी (ṭaṅkī)
→ Burmese: တိုင်ကီ (tuingki)

→ Indonesian: tank

→ Italian: tank, tanca

→ Japanese: タンク (tanku)

→ Kazakh: танк (tank)

→ Korean: 탱크 (taengkeu)

→ Kumyk: танк (tank)

→ Kyrgyz: танк (tank)

→ Latvian: tanks

→ Lezgi: танк (tank)

→ Lithuanian: tankas

→ Macedonian: тенк (tenk)

→ Malay: tank

→ Maori: taika

→ Norwegian: tank, tanks

→ Ossetian: танк (tank)

→ Persian: تانک (tânk)

desc

→ Portuguese: tanque (“armored vehicle”)

→ Quechua: tanki

→ Romanian: tanc

→ Romansch: tanc

desctree

→ Russian: танк (tank)
→ Armenian: տանկ (tank)
→ Kazakh: танк (tank)
→ Mongolian: танк (tank)

→ Carpathian Rusyn: танк (tank)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: тенк

Latin script: tenk

→ Sidamo: tanke

→ Slovak: tank

→ Slovene: tank

→ Swahili: tangi

→ Tajik: танк (tank), тонк (tonk)

→ Tamil: தாங்கி (tāṅki)

→ Tatar: танк (tank)

→ Tokelauan: tane

→ Turkish: tank

→ Turkmen: tank

→ Ukrainian: танк (tank)

→ Upper Sorbian: tank

→ Urdu: ٹینک (ṭaink)

→ Uzbek: tank

→ Vietnamese: xe tăng

→ Walloon: tank

→ Welsh: tanc

→ Yakut: тааҥка (taañka)

→ Yiddish: טאַנק (tank)

From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), originally from Indian vernacular for a large artificial water reservoir, cistern, pool, etc., for example, Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī) or Marathi टाकी (ṭākī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).
In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.

der

(poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.


bicycle

→ Burmese: ဘိုင်စကယ် (bhuingca.kai)

desc

→ Kashubian: bajsykla (Canada, United States)

→ Malay: basikal

→ Maltese: bajsikil

→ Papiamentu: baiskel

→⇒ Serbo-Croatian: bajs

→ Sranan Tongo: baisigri

Aukan: baisigii

Saramaccan: baisígi

→ Kari'na: paisiki

→ Swahili: baiskeli

→ Urdu: بائیسِکَل (bāīsikal)

Borrowed from French bicycle (modern bicyclette), from bi- (“bi-”) + cycle (“cycle”). First attested in English in 1868, and in French in 1847.
(promiscuous woman): From double meaning of ride ("to transport oneself upon" vs. "to mount someone to have sex with them"). A communal bicycle would have many riders.

a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

(poker slang) The wheel: either the lowest straight (A-2-3-4-5) or the best low hand in Lowball or High-low poker.


echo

en-noun

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

(whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.

(whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.


echo

en-verb

echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

echoes (present singular third-person)
echoing (participle present)
echoed (participle past)
echoed (past)

(intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.


natural

en-adj

natural (comparative more natural, superlative most natural)

more natural (comparative)
most natural (superlative)

/ˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/

From Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde. By surface analysis, nature + -al.

luonnollinen

that exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem

luonnollinen

having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position

(bridge) Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.


multi

(bridge) A contract bridge convention whereby the opening bid of 2♦ shows several possible types of hands.


hook

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

(card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).


hook

en-verb

hook (third-person singular simple present hooks, present participle hooking, simple past and past participle hooked)

hooks (present singular third-person)
hooking (participle present)
hooked (participle past)
hooked (past)


splinter

From Middle English splinter, from Middle Dutch splinter, equivalent to splint + -er.

(bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.


cash

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

cashes (present singular third-person)
cashing (participle present)
cashed (participle past)
cashed (past)

From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).

(poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.


spade

Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spáthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.

I've got only one spade in my hand.

(card games) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

maç

one of the black suits in a deck of cards


pot

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

pussitus

cue sports: act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket

not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.

(gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.


chop

→ Japanese: チョップ

From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic, or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.

With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.

(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.


chop

en-verb

chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)

chops (present singular third-person)
chopping (participle present)
chopped (participle past)
chopped (past)

(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”). First attested in c. 1592.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines

(card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.


pyramid

en-noun

pyramid (countable and uncountable, plural pyramids)

From French pyramide, from Old French piramide, from Latin pȳramis, pȳramidis, from Ancient Greek πῡραμίς (pūramís), possibly from πῡρός (pūrós, “wheat”) + ἀμάω (amáō, “reap”) or from Egyptian pr-m-ws (“height of a pyramid”), from pr (“(one that) comes forth”) + m (“from”) + ws (“height”). Schenkel and K. Lang proposed hypothetical Coptic *ⲡⲓⲣⲁⲙ (*piram) or *ⲫⲣⲁⲙ (*phram) derived from Egyptian mr via metathesis as a source of πῡραμίς (pūramís) while Schenkel also suggested it being the source of Arabic هرم although the latter is considered far-fetched by Takacs.

der

(card games, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Pyramid. (a solitaire card game)

Build your pyramid with all cards face down, except the cards in the bottom row.

(card games) The triangular layout of cards in the game of Pyramid.


bitch

en-noun

bitch (countable and uncountable, plural bitches)

→ Dutch: bitch

→? German: Betze, Bätze, Petze

→ French: bitch

From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog”), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). More at bicker.

Coordinate term: butcher

(colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.


pair

pair (plural pairs or (archaic or dialectal) pair)

pairs (plural)
pair (archaic dialectal plural)

→ Tokelauan: pea

From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of par (“pair”). Related to pār (“equal”, adj). Compare Saterland Frisian Poor (“pair”), West Frisian pear (“pair”), Dutch paar (“pair”), German Paar (“pair”), Italian paio (“pair”)

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans

Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)

A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.

A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.

чифт

(card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.

The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.

(baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams


Wellington

From Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.
From Old English Weolingtun, meaning "wealthy estate".

(card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning quadruple, or losing double, the amount staked.


ship

en-verb

ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)

ships (present singular third-person)
shipping (participle present)
shipped (participle past)
shipped (past)

From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship”).

(poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.


sail

sail (third-person singular simple present sails, present participle sailing, simple past and past participle sailed)

sails (present singular third-person)
sailing (participle present)
sailed (participle past)
sailed (past)

From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English seġlan, siġlan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijaną. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Danish sejle, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla.

He would sit his hat across the room, and we would sail cards into it.

2007, Johnny Hughes, Texas Poker Wisdom, page 22:

(card games, transitive) To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.


rock

en-noun

rock (countable and uncountable, plural rocks)

From Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Modern French roc, roche, rocher), from Medieval Latin rocca (attested 767), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be of Celtic (in particular, perhaps Gaulish) origin (compare Breton roc'h). Related also to Middle Low German rocke (“rock ledge”).

rockcress

Brassicaceae: Arabis, Arabidopsis, Boechera spp.

(US poker slang) An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.


length

en-noun

length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)

From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th. Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).

An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.

(bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.


spades

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.

Griff and his cronies played spades at the back of the classroom.

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 57:

(card games) A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.


diamonds

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦.

دِينَارِيّ

one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦


tap

en-verb

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

taps (present singular third-person)
tapping (participle present)
tapped (participle past)
tapped (past)
tap (infinitive)

The noun is derived from Middle English tappe (“hollow device for controlling the flow of liquid from a hole, cock, faucet, spigot; hole through which the liquid flows; the liquid which thus flows”), from Old English tæppa, from Proto-West Germanic *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“a plug, tap; peg; tapering stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p- (“to lose; to sacrifice”).
The verb is derived from Middle English tappen (“to obtain (liquid, chiefly liquor) from a tap; to obtain and sell (liquor)”), from Old English tæppian (“to provide (a container) with a stopper; to obtain (liquid) from a tap”), and then either:
* from Old English tæppa (see above) + -ian (suffix forming verbs); or
* from Proto-Germanic *tappōną, from *tappô (noun) (see above).
Verb sense 1.3.5 (“to turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round”) alludes to the abilities or resources of the card or piece having been drawn on to the point of temporary exhaustion: see verb sense 1.3.2.

точа

to draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source)

(board games, card games) To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.

kääntää

I think there's an expression in poker. I'll tap you, Mr. Maverick.

1957 October 6, Roy Huggins, “According to Hoyle”, in Maverick, season 1, episode 3 (television series), spoken by Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster), Burbank, Calif.: Warner Bros. Pictures, →OCLC:

(poker) To force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot (that is, to go all in) by wagering all of one's own chips.

to force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot by wagering all of one’s own chips


hearts

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ♥.

(card games) A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.


clubs

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣.

اَلسِّبَاتِي

one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣


knock

en-verb

knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked)

knocks (present singular third-person)
knocking (participle present)
knocked (participle past)
knocked (past)

From Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian, ġecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *knew- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew-, *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge (“to squeeze”), Swedish knocka (“to hug”)).

knock someone into the middle of next week

(intransitive, card games, rummy) To end play by declaring one's hand to have under a certain amount of deadwood.


jackass

From the phonetic similarity of "jack, ace" to "jackass".

(poker slang) A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.


club

→ German: Klub

→ Greek: κλαμπ (klamp), γκλομπ (gklomp)

→ Malay: kelab

→ Tokelauan: kalapu

From Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).

knuppel

heavy stick for use as weapon or plaything

(card games) A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.

I've got only one club in my hand.

A playing card marked with such a symbol.


check

en-verb

check (third-person singular simple present checks, present participle checking, simple past and past participle checked)

checks (present singular third-person)
checking (participle present)
checked (participle past)
checked (past)

→ Brazilian Portuguese: checar

→ Cantonese: check

→ Finnish: tsekata

→ German: checken

→ Gulf Arabic: چيك (čayyak)

→ Hijazi Arabic: شَيَّك (šayyak)

→ Hungarian: csekkol

→ Russian: че́кать (čékatʹ)

→ Russian: че́кнуть (čéknutʹ)

→ Russian: проче́кать (pročékatʹ)

→ Spanish: chequear, checar (Mexico)

From Middle English chekken, partly from Old French eschequier and partly from the noun (see above).

check yourself before you wreck yourself

Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked.

(poker, transitive) To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.

пасувам

poker: to remain in the hand without betting


minor

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.

byvak

subject of secondary undergraduate study

Many find it easier to remember 20 for Minors, 30 for Majors and 35 for No Trump.

1927, Milton Cooper Work, Contract Bridge, page 11:

(bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit; a card of a minor suit.


tableau

Unadapted borrowing from French tableau, from Old French tablel (“a surface which is used primarily for painting”).

(card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.


muck

en-noun

muck (usually uncountable, plural mucks)

From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc, *moce (in hlōsmoc (“pigsty dung”) and lustmoce (“lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukį̄ (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery”) (compare Welsh mign (“swamp”), Latin mūcus (“snot”), mucere (“to be moldy or musty”), Latvian mukls (“swampy”), Albanian myk (“mould”), Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus, lamp wick”), Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), German Mauke (“mud fever”)), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.


muck

en-verb

muck (third-person singular simple present mucks, present participle mucking, simple past and past participle mucked)

mucks (present singular third-person)
mucking (participle present)
mucked (participle past)
mucked (past)

(poker, colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.


turn

→ Japanese: ターン (tān)

Partly from Anglo-Norman *torn, from Latin turnus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), and partly an action noun from the verb turn.

պտույտ

movement about an axis ending up with the same orientation

360° turn

movement about an axis returning to the original orientation

the first turn of the screw pays all debts

(poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.

turn

poker: fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em

(poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.


poker

→ Armenian: պոկեր (poker)

→ Catalan: pòquer

→ Chinese: 撲克／扑克 (pūkè; pok³ hak¹)

→ Czech: poker

→ Dutch: poker

→ Esperanto: pokero

→ Finnish: pokeri

→ French: poker

→ Georgian: პოკერი (ṗoḳeri)

→ German: Poker
→ Estonian: pokker

→ Greek: πόκερ (póker)

→ Hungarian: póker

→ Icelandic: póker

→ Italian: poker

→ Japanese: ポーカー (pokā)

→ Korean: 포커 (pokeo)

→ Luxembourgish: Poker

→ Macedonian: покер (poker)

→ Polish: poker

→ Portuguese: pôquer

→ Russian: покер (poker)

→ Serbo-Croatian: poker / покер

→ Slovene: poker

→ Spanish: póquer

→ Swedish: poker

→ Turkish: poker

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque. First appeared in the 19th century.

Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.

(poker) All the four cards of the same rank.


major

From Middle English major, from Latin maior, comparative of magnus (“great, large; noble, important”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs (“greater”), comparative of *meǵh₂- (“great”). Compare West Frisian majoar (“major”), Dutch majoor (“major”), French majeur. Doublet of mayor.

pääaineopiskelija

student specializing in a specified subject


skunk

→ Czech: skunk

→ Danish: skunk

→ German: Skunk

→ Finnish: skunkki

→ French: skunks

→ Icelandic: skunkur

→ Japanese: スカンク (sukanku)

desc

→ Kashubian: skunk (Canada, United States)

→ Norwegian: skunk

→ Polish: skunks

→ Russian: скунс (skuns)

→ Slovak: skunk

→ Swedish: skunk

From an unattested Southern New England Algonquian word, cognate with Abenaki segôgw, segonku (“he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”). Doublet of Chicago.

cog

(cribbage) A win by 30 or more points. (A double skunk is 60 or more, a triple skunk 90 or more.)


skunk

en-verb

skunk (third-person singular simple present skunks, present participle skunking, simple past and past participle skunked)

skunks (present singular third-person)
skunking (participle present)
skunked (participle past)
skunked (past)


wheel

we'll (one pronunciation along with the wine–whine merger)

From Middle English whel, from Old English hwēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą, *hweulō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷlóm, *kʷékʷlos, *kʷékʷléh₂, reduplication of *kʷel- (“to turn”) and a suffix (literally "(the thing that) turns and turns." See also West Frisian tsjil, Dutch wiel, Danish hjul; also Tocharian B kokale (“cart, wagon”), Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “cycle, wheel”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬑𐬭𐬀 (caxra), Sanskrit चक्र (cakrá)); and Latin colō (“to till, cultivate”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B käl- (“to bear; bring”), Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō, “to come into existence, become”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”), Albanian sjell (“to bring, carry, turn around”), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (caraⁱti, “it circulates”), Sanskrit चरति (cárati, “it moves, wanders”)). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, and cyclus.

агьежь

a circular device facilitating movement or transportation

peix gros

person with a great deal of power or influence

(poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.

(poker slang) The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.


anaconda

/ˌænəˈkɒndə/

From New Latin anacandaia (“python”) [originally referring to a species of constrictor found in Sri Lanka, from Sinhalese හෙනකඳයා (henakaⁿdayā, “whip snake”), from හෙන (hena, “lightning, thunderbolt”) + කඳ (kaⁿda, “stem, trunk, body”) or from Tamil ஆனைக்கொன்றான் (āṉaikkoṉṟāṉ, “having killed an elephant”), from ஆனை (āṉai, “elephant”) + கொன்றான் (koṉṟāṉ, “having killed”).

der

ஆனைக்கொன்றான்

(card games) A particular variety of stud poker.


monkey

en-noun

monkey (plural monkeys or (obsolete) monkies)

monkeys (plural)
monkies (obsolete plural)

→ Chukchi: маӈкы (maṇky)

→ Coeur d'Alene: moonki

→ Irish: moncaí

→ Navajo: mágí

→ Scottish Gaelic: muncaidh

→ Tumbuka: munkhwele

→ Welsh: mwnci

Uncertain. May be derived from monk + -ey (diminutive suffix), or borrowed from Middle Low German Moneke, the name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial Middle Low German *moneke, *moneken), itself of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from a Romance term represented by Late Middle French monne (whence Modern French mone (“monkey”)) or earlier Old French monnekin (“monkey”), originally Monnekin, the name of a monkey in Li Dis d'Entendement. Compare also Old French and Middle French monin (“monkey”). The French terms may have been borrowed from Italian monna (“monkey”), from Old Spanish mona (“female monkey”), itself a shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon”)). However, Old French monnekin may alternatively be unrelated to the other terms, instead being a borrowing of Early Middle Dutch mannekin (a diminutive of a personal name or surname; hence, nickname, literally “miniature man”).

gl

whence Modern French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">mone</i> (“monkey”)

der

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey

A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys
Or a whole fifty scores

2004, The Streets (lyrics and music), “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in A Grand Don’t Come for Free:

(slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.


traveller

From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.

At the conclusion of play, the scores from all the travelers get entered into a computer.

2008, David Galt, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Bridge, →ISBN, page 263:

(bridge) A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.


penchant

en-noun

penchant (countable and uncountable, plural penchants)

Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).

uder

(card games, uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.

(card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.


double

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.

(bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.


double

en-verb

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

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

(bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.

контрирам

bridge: to make a call that will double certain scoring points

(card games, intransitive) To double down.


marriage

en-noun

marriage (countable and uncountable, plural marriages)

From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin marītō (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from marītus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry + -age. Doublet of maritage. Displaced native Old English sinsċipe.

der

marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute

You should enter marriage for love.

(card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.

(card games) In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.


peg

From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak.
This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare.
(To indicate or ascribe an attribute to):: Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.

sense

(cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.

Stift

peg moved on a crib board to keep score (cribbage)


peg

en-verb

peg (third-person singular simple present pegs, present participle pegging, simple past and past participle pegged)

pegs (present singular third-person)
pegging (participle present)
pegged (participle past)
pegged (past)

She pegged twelve points.

(cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.


squeeze

From earlier squize, squise (whence also dialectal English squizzen and squeege), first attested around 1600, further origin uncertain; probably an alteration of quease (which is attested since 1550), from Middle English queisen (“to squeeze”), from Old English cwēsan, cwȳsan (“to crush, squeeze”), itself also of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare Swedish qväsa, kväsa (“to squeeze, bruise, crush; quell”), Dutch kwetsen (“to injure, hurt”), German quetschen (“to squeeze”)). Or, a blend of obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”) (whence also squash and squish) with quease. Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to press, squeeze”).
The slang expression "to put the squeeze on (someone or something)", meaning "to exert influence", is from 1711. The baseball term "squeeze play" is first recorded 1905. "Main squeeze" ("most important person") is attested from 1896, the specific meaning "one's sweetheart, lover" is attested in 1970s.
The nonstandard strong forms squoze and squozen, attested dialectally since at least the mid-19th century, are by analogy with freeze.

cog

(card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.


sacrifice

en-noun

sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-
Proto-Italic *sakros
Latin sacer
Latin sacrum
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin facio
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Italic *-jōs
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sacrificiumlbor.
Old French sacrifisebor.
Middle English sacrifice
English sacrifice
From Middle English sacrifice (“act of offering a life or object to a deity; the life or object so offered; (Christianity) act of consecrating the elements in the mass”), from Anglo-Norman sacrefiz, and Old French sacrifice, sacrifise (modern French sacrifice), from Latin sacrificium (“something offered to a deity, sacrifice”), from sacrum (“sacrifice, sacrificial rite”) + faciō (“to do, to make”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The noun sacrum is the nominalized neuter of the adjective sacer (“devoted to a deity for sacrifice; holy, sacred”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (“ceremony, ritual; to make sacred”), and the verb faciō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”). Related Latin formations include sacrificus (“of or pertaining to sacrifice, sacrificial”) and sacrificō (“to make a sacrifice”).
cognates
* Italian sagrifizio
* Occitan sacrifici
* Portuguese sacrificio
* Spanish sacrificio

der

(bridge) In full sacrifice bid: a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, that a player makes in the hope that they will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.

uhraus

(bridge) bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled


sacrifice

en-verb

sacrifice (third-person singular simple present sacrifices, present participle sacrificing, simple past and past participle sacrificed)

sacrifices (present singular third-person)
sacrificing (participle present)
sacrificed (participle past)
sacrificed (past)
sacrifice (infinitive)

From Middle English sacrificen (“to offer a sacrifice to a deity”), from sacrifice (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs).

flijoj

(transitive) to offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity; (transitive) to offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity

(bridge) To make a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, in the hope that that the player will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.

uhrata

(bridge) to make a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled


advertise

en-verb

advertise (third-person singular simple present advertises, present participle advertising, simple past and past participle advertised)

advertises (present singular third-person)
advertising (participle present)
advertised (participle past)
advertised (past)

From Middle English advertisen, from Anglo-Norman advertir (“to inform”), avertir, Middle French advertir, avertir (“to warn, give notice to”), with the ending assimilated to -ise, -ize and probably influenced by the noun advertisement. Compare also advert.

The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.

1947, On Gin Rummy: An All-American Roundup, page 121:

(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.


library

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: लाइब्रेरी f (lāibrerī)

Urdu: لائبریری f (lāibrerī)

→ Japanese: ライブラリー (raiburarī)

→ Korean: 라이브러리 (raibeureori)

→ Yoruba: láíbìrì

/ˈlaɪˌbɹɛɹi/

From Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(ʰ)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochous, bokhus (literally “book house”), from Old English bōchūs (compare bookhouse).
Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish librería, Romanian librărie and Portuguese livraria. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.

ncog

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

(genetics) A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.

At the conclusion of every duel, each player must show the remaining cards in his or her hand to the opponent to verify that no Restricted List duplicate cards appear there (e.g., to prove that a second Time Walk wasn't drawn from his library).

1994, The Magic, the Gathering: Pocket Players' Guide, →ISBN, page 167:

But why did very good players shy away from cards that are so obviously good from our perspectives? One very real possibility is that library manipulation/increased selection and redundancy tech had not yet been established - after all, many players were amazed at Lestree's use of the Sylvan Library to draw extra cards!

2006, Michael J. Flores, Deckade: 10 Years of Decks, Thoughts, and Theory!, →ISBN, page 228:

To win a game of Magic, you must achieve one of two chief goals: either be the first to reduce your opponent's life total from 20 to 0, or force him or her to attempt to draw a card from his or her library when there are no cards left in it.

2006, John Kaufeld, Jeremy Smith, Trading Card Games For Dummies, →ISBN, page 50:

The deck becomes the draw pile, also called the library, from which each player repeatedly draws cards for his or her own hand, cards that are gradually included into the game.

2010, Shirley R. Steinberg, Michael Kehler, Lindsay Cornish, Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 418:

At this phase, most of TCGs only allow players drawing card(s) from a pack which is also called library or deck.

2010, Zhigeng Pan, Maiga Chang, Adrian David Cheok, Transactions on Edutainment III, →ISBN, page 119:

(card games, Magic: The Gathering) The deck or draw pile.


joker

From joke + -er, but in the sense of a playing card possibly by alteration of Jucker, also the origin of the name of the card game euchre.

A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.


table

→ Assamese: টেবুল (tebul)

→ Bengali: টেবিল (ṭebil)

→ Gujarati: ટેબલ (ṭebal)

→ Japanese: テーブル (tēburu)

→ Korean: 테이블 (teibeul)

→ Maori: tēpu

→ Nepali: टेबुल (ṭebul)

→ Odia: ଟେବଲ୍ (ṭebal)

→ Telugu: టేబులు (ṭēbulu)

From Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.

der

That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event

A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

(poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.


diamond

en-noun

diamond (countable and uncountable, plural diamonds)

From Middle English dyamaunt, from Old French diamant, from Late Latin diamas, from Latin adamas, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “diamond”). Doublet of adamant. The printing sense is a calque of Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700; compare pearl, ruby (“size of type between pearl and nonpareil”).

der

I have only one diamond in my hand.

(card games) A card of the diamonds suit.


conventional

en-adj

conventional (comparative more conventional, superlative most conventional)

more conventional (comparative)
most conventional (superlative)

atypical

antonym(s) of “pertaining to a convention”

(bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.


discard

en-verb

discard (third-person singular simple present discards, present participle discarding, simple past and past participle discarded)

discards (present singular third-person)
discarding (participle present)
discarded (participle past)
discarded (past)

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.

(intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.


presto

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


walk

From Middle English walk, walke, walc, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“a rolling motion, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *walką. Cognate with Icelandic válk (“a rolling around, a tossing to and fro, trouble, distress”).

cog

(poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.


preemptive

en-adj

preemptive (comparative more preemptive, superlative most preemptive)

more preemptive (comparative)
most preemptive (superlative)

(bridge, of a high-level bid) Intended to interfere with an opponent's bidding.


chip

en-verb

chip (third-person singular simple present chips, present participle chipping, simple past and past participle chipped)

chips (present singular third-person)
chipping (participle present)
chipped (participle past)
chipped (past)

Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.

chipata

to play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards

(intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).


ante

Learned borrowing from Latin ante (“before”).

lbor

(poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.


pharaoh

en-noun

pharaoh (countable and uncountable, plural pharaohs)

From Middle English pharao (also as pharaon, farao, faraon, etc.), from Old English pharao, from Late Latin Pharaō, from Ancient Greek Φαραώ (Pharaṓ), from Hebrew פַּרְעֹה (par‘ōh), from Egyptian pr-ꜥꜣ (“palace, pharaoh”, literally “pr (“house”) + ꜥꜣ (“great, big”)”).

der

"I pray, when I play pharaoh at White's, that the cards fall as they have come to my hand in this large gamble," Anstis said.

1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning gold:

(uncountable, card games) The card game faro.


out

→ Greek: άουτ (áout)

→ Japanese: アウト (auto)

→ Korean: 아웃 (aut)

→ Spanish: out

From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”).
Cognate with Scots oot, out (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut, uute (“out”), West Frisian út (“out”), Dutch uit (“out”), German Low German ut (“out”), German aus (“out”), Norwegian/Swedish ut, ute (“out; outside”), Danish ud, ude (“out; outside”).

inh

As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand.

2005, Alison M. Pendergast, Play Winning Poker in No Time, page 57:

If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.

2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour, page 21:

(poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.


demon

Anthony the Great
Michelangelo
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en:demon (disambiguation)

From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Doublet of daimon.

der

Coordinate term: Canfield

‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’.

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 89:

(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.


up

down

antonym(s) of “traveling towards a major terminus”

From Middle English up, from Old English upp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, see more there.

AAKK = aces up

QQ33 = queens up

(poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.


imperial

en-noun

imperial (countable and uncountable, plural imperials)

From Middle English imperial, from Old French imperial, from Latin imperiālis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -ālis, from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”). Displaced Old English cāserlīċ.

der

(card games, uncountable) A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.

(card games, countable) Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.


inverse

Recorded since 1440, from Latin inversus, the past participle of invertere (“to invert”), itself from in- (“in, on”) + vertere (“to turn”).

If the player... be determined to try his luck on the inverse, he must place his money on a yellow circle, or rather a collection of circles, situated at the extremity of the table.

1850, Henry George Bohn, The Hand-book of Games, page 343:

The tailleur never mentions the words ‘Black’ or ‘Inverse’, but always says that Red wins or Red loses, and that the colour wins or the colour loses.

1950, Lawrence Hawkins Dawson, Hoyle's Games Modernized, 20th edition, page 291:

(card games) The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that first dealt; the area of the table reserved for bets upon such an outcome.


sailboat

(slang, card games) A playing card with the rank of four.


combine

en-verb

combine (third-person singular simple present combines, present participle combining, simple past and past participle combined)

combines (present singular third-person)
combining (participle present)
combined (participle past)
combined (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle French combiner, from Late Latin combīnāre, present active infinitive of combīnō (“unite, yoke together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + bīnī (“two by two”).

(card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.


runner

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).

махови́к

mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move

(poker slang) A competitor in a poker tournament.

Agent noun of run; one who runs.
A competitor in a poker tournament.


nap

en-noun

nap (countable and uncountable, plural naps)

From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France.

(uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.


quart

From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).

cog

A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.

1908, Cavendish, The laws of piquet adopted:

(card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.


cowboy

en-noun

cowboy (countable and uncountable, plural cowboys)

→ Catalan: cowboy

→ Dutch: cowboy

→ Estonian: kauboi

→ Finnish: cowboy

→ French: cow-boy
→ Vietnamese: cao bồi

→ German: Cowboy

→ Greek: καουμπόι (kaoumpói)

→ Hungarian: cowboy

→ Japanese: カウボーイ (kaubōi)

desc

→ Khmer: ខោវប៊យ (khaowbɔɔy), ខូវប៊ (khəwbɔɔ)

→ Korean: 카우보이 (kauboi)

→ Mandarin: 牛仔 (niúzǎi) (calque)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: cowboy

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: cowboy

→ Polish: kowboj

→ Portuguese: caubói

desctree

→ Russian: ковбо́й (kovbój)
→ Armenian: կովբոյ (kovboy)

→ Serbo-Croatian: kàuboj, ка̀убој

→ Spanish: cowboy

→ Swedish: cowboy

→ Thai: คาวบอย (kaao-bɔɔi)

(card games, slang) A playing card of king rank.


hero

en-noun

hero (plural heroes or (sandwich sense) heros)

→ Hindi: हीरो (hīro)

→ Japanese: ヒーロー (hīrō)

→ Korean: 히어로 (hieoro)

→ Thai: ฮีโร่ (hii-rôo)

[ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ]

From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.

der

Let's discuss how to play if the hero has KK, and there's an ace on board.

(poker) The current player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: villain (“any opponent player”). Not to be confused with hero call (“a weak call against a supposed bluff”).


over

From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér, a comparative form of *upo.
Akin to Dutch over, German ober, über, Danish over, Norwegian over, Swedish över, Icelandic yfir, Faroese yvir, Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂 (ufar), Latin super, Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér), Albanian upri (“group of peasants”), Sanskrit उपरि (upári).
Doublet of uber, super, and hyper.

9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes

(poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.


grace

en-noun

grace (countable and uncountable, plural graces)

From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful.
The word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēst (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”)).

cog

(countable, card games) In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules.


blaze

From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”).
Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”). Compare Dutch bles (“blaze”), German Blesse (“blaze, mark on an animal's forehead”), Swedish bläs (“blaze”).

cog

(poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.


raise

en-verb

raise (third-person singular simple present raises, present participle raising, simple past and past participle raised)

raises (present singular third-person)
raising (participle present)
raised (participle past)
raised (past)

From Middle English reysen, raisen, reisen, from Old Norse reisa (“to raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną (“to raise”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”).
Cognate with Old English rāsian (“to explore, examine, research”), Old English rīsan (“to seize, carry off”), Old English rǣran (“to raise”). Doublet of rear.

whakahī

Referring to lifting the pitch of a musical note

hāpai

Of lifting an object to a higher elevation

hī

Refers to raising an eyebrow in scepticism

aradan qaldırmaq

(military) to remove or break up (a blockade); to relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done

raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps

John bet, and Julie raised, requiring John to put in more money.

(poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.


raise

(poker) A bet that increases the previous bet.


fold

en-verb

fold (third-person singular simple present folds, present participle folding, simple past folded, past participle folded or (obsolete) folden)

folds (present singular third-person)
folding (participle present)
folded (past)
folded (participle past)
folden (obsolete participle past)

⇒ Czech: foldovat

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.

(intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.


coup

(Re)borrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation).

(bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.


royal

From Middle English royal, from Old French roial (Modern French royal), from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”). Doublet of regal (“befitting a king”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ.

doublet

(card games) In auction bridge, a royal spade.


position

From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positio (“a putting, position”), from ponere, past participle positus (“to put, place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.

positio

finance: amount of financial instruments held by someone

emergency position indicating radio beacon

emergency position indicating radio-beacon

emergency position indicating radiobeacon

(poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.

järjestys

poker: order in which players are seated around the table


auction

From Latin auctiō (“an increase, auction”), from Latin augere (“to increase”).

(bridge) The first stage of a deal, in which players bid to determine the final contract.


ladies

As a lavatory for women, via misspelling of ladies'. Compare gents.

(poker slang, Texas hold 'em) An initial hand consisting of a pair of queens.


pack

en-verb

pack (third-person singular simple present packs, present participle packing, simple past and past participle packed)

packs (present singular third-person)
packing (participle present)
packed (participle past)
packed (past)

From Middle English pakken, from the noun (see above). Compare Middle Dutch packen (“to pack”), Middle Low German packen (“to pack”).

وَضَّبَ

to put things together for storage or transporting

Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.

1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

(transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage

stack

To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly


pique

The noun is borrowed from French pic, Middle French pic (“pique in the game of piquet; pike (tool)”), picq (“game of piquet”), from Vulgar Latin *pīccus (“sharp point, peak; pike, spike”), possibly from Frankish *pikk, *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pikjaz, *pīkaz (“sharp point, peak; pickaxe; pike”); further etymology unknown. Doublet of pike.
The verb is either derived from the noun (though the latter is attested in print later), or borrowed from French pic.

der

Flip[panta]. Hark thee, Braſs, the Game's in our hands, if we can but play the Cards. / Br[ass]. Pique and Repique, you Jade you: If the Wives will fall into a good Intelligence.

1705, [John Vanbrugh], The Confederacy. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, pages 36–37:

(card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.


pique

en-verb

pique (third-person singular simple present piques, present participle piquing, simple past and past participle piqued)

piques (present singular third-person)
piquing (participle present)
piqued (participle past)
piqued (past)

My villainous old luck ſtill follovvs me in gaming, I never throvv the Dice out of my hand, but my Gold goes after 'em: if I go to Picquet, though it be but vvith a Novice in't, he vvill picque and repicque, and Capot me tvventy times together: […]

1667 August 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Dryden], Sr Martin Mar-all, or The Feign’d Innocence: A Comedy. […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1668, →OCLC, Act I, page 5:

He seemed perfectly to understand the beautiful game at which he played, but preferred, as it were on principle, the risking bold and precarious strokes to the ordinary rules of play, and neglecting the minor and better balanced chances of the game; he hazarded every thing for the chance of piqueing, repiqueing, or capotting his adversary.

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 249–250:

(transitive, intransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).


equity

en-noun

equity (countable and uncountable, plural equities)

From Middle English equitee, equytee, from Old French equité, from Latin aequitās (“uniformity; impartiality; fairness”).

bonds

(in various financial and economic subsenses): debt; as stock in a company

(finance) Various senses related to net value

(poker) A player's expected share of the pot.

Various senses related to net value
A player's expected share of the pot.


cheat

→ Dutch: cheat

→ French: cheat

→ German: Cheat

Inherited from Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excadēre, from Latin ex + cadere (“fall”).

(card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.


tierce

From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.

(card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.


flop

en-verb

flop (third-person singular simple present flops, present participle flopping, simple past and past participle flopped)

flops (present singular third-person)
flopping (participle present)
flopped (participle past)
flopped (past)

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound

Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).

(poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.


flop

The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.

1996, John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning:

Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).

2003, Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games:

The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop.

2005, Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level:

(poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.

floppi

poker: the first three cards dealt face up


crab

en-noun

crab (countable and uncountable, plural crabs)

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“scratch, claw at”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ-. More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.

cog

(poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.


twist

en-verb

twist (third-person singular simple present twists, present participle twisting, simple past and past participle twisted)

twists (present singular third-person)
twisting (participle present)
twisted (participle past)
twisted (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt).
Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”).
The verb is from Middle English twisten. Compare Dutch twisten, Danish tviste (“to dispute”), Swedish tvista (“to argue; dispute”).

cog

(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.


nest

From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).

it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest

I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.

(card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.


tight

en-adj

tight (comparative tighter, superlative tightest)

tighter (comparative)
tightest (superlative)

baggy

firmly held together; of clothing or other material

slack

antonym(s) of “well-rehearsed and accurate”

From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”).
Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”).
The current form with t- /t/ rather than etymologically-expected th- /θ/ arose in Middle English under the influence of the etymologically-unrelated verbs tighten and tight.

der

(poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.

(poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.


transfer

en-noun

transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)

/tɹɑːnsˈfɜː/

(bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.


pontoon

Probably from vingt-un, an obsolete variant of vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”), from French.

(card games) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.


pocket

From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokā (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkô, *pukô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.

der

a pocket pair of kings

(Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.


trick

From Middle English trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier (“to defraud, act dishonestly, conceal, deceive, cheat”); > modern French tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), or one of its derivatives (e.g. Middle High German ūftrechen (“to do something to someone, hurt someone”), vertrechen (“to conceal, get over on someone”), zuotrechen (“to obtain falsely or deceitfully, wangle, finagle”), etc.); yet the Old French verb is equally likely to be derived from Vulgar Latin *triccāre, from Late Latin tricāre, from Latin trīcor, trīcārī (“dodge, search for detours; haggle, quibble”).
The term has been connected to Middle Dutch treck, trec (“draw, line, desire, game move, cord, stratagem, ruse, trick”), from Middle Dutch trekken, trēken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekken, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną, *trekaną (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). If they are related, trick would be cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka, Romanian truc and other Romance languages.
Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.

der

I was able to take the second trick with the queen of hearts.

And now (as oft in some distemper'd state) / On one nice trick depends the gen'ral fate!

1712, Alexander Pope, “Canto III”, in The Rape of the Lock, lines 93–94; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 94:

(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.


bouquet

Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.

(card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.


defend

en-verb

defend (third-person singular simple present defends, present participle defending, simple past and past participle defended)

defends (present singular third-person)
defending (participle present)
defended (participle past)
defended (past)

From Middle English defenden, from Old French defendre, deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-. Displaced native Old English bewerian.

(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.


playing card

(card games) Any of the usually 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play numerous games, featuring either one to 10 pips or a picture and belonging of one of four suits.

speelkaart

one of usually 52 rectangular pieces of card


limit

German: Limit

From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.


prime

composite

prime element of a mathematical structure

From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus.
The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

(card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.


contract

From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”).

(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.


cinch

Compare senses at etymology 1 (a girth, a tight grip), perhaps suggesting the tactics used in the game; or perhaps from Spanish cinco (“five”), the five spots of the colour of the trump being important cards.

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(card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.


cinch

en-verb

cinch (third-person singular simple present cinches, present participle cinching, simple past and past participle cinched)

cinches (present singular third-person)
cinching (participle present)
cinched (participle past)
cinched (past)

(card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.


bilk

Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.

(cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.


return

return (third-person singular simple present returns, present participle returning, simple past and past participle returned)

returns (present singular third-person)
returning (participle present)
returned (participle past)
returned (past)

From Middle English returnen, retornen, from Anglo-Norman returner, from Old French retourner, retorner, from Medieval Latin retornare (“to turn back”), from re- + tornare (“to turn”). Compare beturn.

der

If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.

(card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.

отговарям

card games: to play a card as a result of another player's lead


faro

Presumably an alteration of pharaon, itself a transcription of French pharaon, perhaps as a name for the King of Hearts.

(card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.


nob

Pronunciation spelling of knob.
Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.

One for his nob.

(cribbage) A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer. (See also nibs.)


nitty

en-adj

nitty (comparative nittier or more nitty, superlative nittiest or most nitty)

nittier (comparative)
more nitty (comparative)
nittiest (superlative)
most nitty (superlative)

Over the past year and a half Isildur1 has captivated the poker community with his overly aggressive play and mesmerizing swings in the highest cash games online. His most intriguing characteristic isn’t his combativeness or his disregard for money; however, it’s his anonymity. […] [Phil] Hellmuth is far too nitty to be the face behind an online maniac such as Isildur1, he’s already rumored to be "#1_Lucky_One" and he’s clearly not spending copious amounts of time grinding high stakes in Sweden.

2011 January 7, Rich Ryan, “PokerNews Top Five: Isildur1 Dream List”, in PokerNews, archived from the original on 2016-09-01:

I recently played the following hand in a $2–$5 game in Las Vegas. I had a $1,000 stack. A nitty regular player opened from under the gun for $20 with a $1,000 stack. Another nitty player directly to my right called. This player had about $350 behind.

2012 July 29, Ed Miller, “Poker Strategy With Ed Miller – Bet Sizing Tells: Knowing what to Look For”, in Card Player, archived from the original on 2016-09-12:

Good2cu figures he can budget $50,000—around 25 percent of his net worth—for a new set of wheels, although a nittier recess of his poker mind knows that buying new is for suckers. Cars lose a significant portion of their value the moment you drive them off the lot.

2013, Jonathan Grotenstein, Storms Reback, chapter 30, in Ship It Holla Ballas!: How a Bunch of 19-year-old College Dropouts Used the Internet to Become Poker’s LOUDEST, CRAZIEST, and RICHEST Crew, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

These days, even the nittiest regular players use continuation bets. But not every flop calls for a continuation bet from every hand.

2015 March 8, Ed Miller, “Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: Attacking Bad Continuation Bets: Miller Explains Why You Shouldn’t Continuation Bet Every Time”, in Card Player, archived from the original on 2017-04-01:

"Ladies Night" on Poker Night in America was far from nitty, so naturally the bets continued once the game wrapped up for the night.

2018 August 15, Pamela Maldonado, “Prop Bets: Lily Kiletto to Bench Press; Joey Ingram Makes Music Video”, in PokerNews, archived from the original on 2018-08-15:

(poker slang) Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner.


hock

Coordinate term: soda

(card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.


punter

He had stolen 'trannies' (transistor radios) and hub caps from cars outside the main hotels in Glasgow, turning the collection into money through dealing with a 'punter' at Charing Cross.

2013, James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed:

(Scotland) A person who trades with a gang but is not a gang member.


skeet

en-noun

skeet (countable and uncountable, plural skeets)

Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta; compare Scots skite (“to dart, to shoot”). The name for a form of trapshooting is attested from the 1920s, see quotations below. Senses related to ejaculation of semen likely derive from this, but compare also squirt, skite, or scoot. The word skeet is attested in reference to working class persons in US English from the 19th century, or the Newfoundland and Labrador regionalism may derive from other terms such as skite or skeeter; see quotation below.

(countable, poker) A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.


cater

From French quatre (“four”). Doublet of cuatro.

Cater is a very good caste.

1519, William Horman, Vulgaria, fol. 280v:

(card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.


mort

mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)

From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).

(card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.

(card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.


bluff

bluff (countable and uncountable, plural bluffs)

→ Portuguese: bluff, (Brazil) blefe

Probably from Dutch bluffen (“to brag”), from Middle Dutch bluffen (“to make something swell; to bluff”); or from the Dutch noun bluf (“bragging”). Related to German verblüffen (“to stump, perplex”).

der

John’s bet was a bluff: he bet without even so much as a pair.

(poker, countable or uncountable) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.

блъф

poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do


bluff

en-verb

bluff (third-person singular simple present bluffs, present participle bluffing, simple past and past participle bluffed)

bluffs (present singular third-person)
bluffing (participle present)
bluffed (participle past)
bluffed (past)

John bluffed by betting without even a pair.

(poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s hand is stronger than it is.


deck

From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.

rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic

shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic

(card games) A pack or set of playing cards.

(card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.


deck

deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)

decks (present singular third-person)
decking (participle present)
decked (participle past)
decked (past)

(collectible card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.


invitation

en-noun

invitation (countable and uncountable, plural invitations)

From Middle English invitacioun, ynvytacioun, from Latin invītātio, reinforced by Middle French invitation. Displaced native Middle English lathinge from Old English laþung (see dialectal English lathing).

I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slam invitation of 46.

2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest, page 113:

To any other invitation made by the captain, acceptance or refusal of the invitation is exclusively a question of points within the range advertised in the opening statement, and the invitation is always in the last called suit.

2011, Gerard Cohen, Bridge Is a Conversation: Part I: the Auction, page 71:

(bridge) A bid that tells one's partner that game or slam is likely if their hand is at the strong end of what they have indicated.


foundation

foundation (countable and uncountable, plural foundations)

From Middle English foundacioun, fundacioun, from Old French fondacion, from Latin fundātiō (“founding, foundation”).

(card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.


poussette

(card games) A method of cheating in card games, whereby a player surreptitiously changes his or her stake after the cards are dealt.


knave

From Middle English knave, knafe, from Old English cnafa (“child, boy, youth; servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *knabō. Cognate to Dutch knaap and German Knabe.

inh

(card games) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.


piquet

Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:

The two wedding parties met constantly in each other's apartments. After two or three nights the gentlemen of an evening had a little piquet, as their wives sate and chatted apart.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

They would kick off their shoes and play piquet by candle-light.

We shall together challenge the Chevalier de Belleroche to piquet; and, while we are winning money from him, we shall have the even greater pleasure of hearing you sing with your charming teacher, to whom I shall propose it.

2007, Helen Constantine, translated by Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 35:

(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.


ruff

From Old French roffle, rouffle (earlier romfle, ronfle), or from Italian ronfa (“card game similar to whist”); these words are possibly from Old French triomphe (“a triumph, victory”), Italian trionfo (“triumph; trump card”), from Latin triumphus (“hymn to Bacchus; celebration, triumph”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρῐ́ᾰμβος (thríambos, “hymn to Dionysius, thriambus”). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of trump.

der

[W]hat ſhall wee haue a game at Trumpe or Ruffe to driue away the time, how ſay you?

1595, G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. A Pleasant Conceited Comedie, Played by the Queenes Maiesties Players, London: Printed at London by Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, →OCLC; reprinted as [Walter Wilson Greg], editor, The Old Wives’ Tale: 1595 (The Malone Society Reprints; 7), [Oxford]: Printed for the Malone Society by Horace Hart M.A. at the Oxford University Press, 1908, →OCLC, 85–87:

(obsolete) A game similar to whist and its predecessor.


represent

en-verb

represent (third-person singular simple present represents, present participle representing, simple past and past participle represented)

represents (present singular third-person)
representing (participle present)
represented (participle past)
represented (past)

/ˌɹɛp.ɹɪˈzɛnt/

From Old French représenter, from Latin repraesentō.

Richard was holding the nuts, but he was trying to represent two-pair to get the other players to bet.

(poker, transitive) To play as if holding (a set of cards); to play as if having made (a hand).


limp

limp (third-person singular simple present limps, present participle limping, simple past and past participle limped)

limps (present singular third-person)
limping (participle present)
limped (participle past)
limped (past)

From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”).
Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).

cog

(poker slang, intransitive) To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.


underplay

en-verb

underplay (third-person singular simple present underplays, present participle underplaying, simple past and past participle underplayed)

underplays (present singular third-person)
underplaying (participle present)
underplayed (participle past)
underplayed (past)

(transitive, card games) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.

laistaa

card games: to play a low card when holding a high one


slam

en-noun

slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)

→ French: chelem
→ English: chelem

Unknown and long-speculated, though perhaps at least reinforced by Etymology 1. Doublet of chelem.

(countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.

(countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.


slam

en-verb

slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)

slams (present singular third-person)
slamming (participle present)
slammed (participle past)
slammed (past)

D having seven Spades in his Hand wins them, and consequently slams A and B

1742, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist:

(transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

(intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.


blind

From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

The blinds are $10 and $20, and the ante is $1.

(poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.

The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.

(poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.


blind

en-adv

blind (comparative more blind, superlative most blind)

more blind (comparative)
most blind (superlative)

(poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.


reserve

en-noun

reserve (countable and uncountable, plural reserves)

اِحْتِيَاط

that which is reserved or kept back, as for future use

рэзерва́цыя

tract of land reserved for Aboriginal people

Something initially kept back for later use in recreation.

(card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.


stack

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From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”), which per Kroonen (arguing for the controversial Kluge's law) is from *stogʰ-nós, cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος (stokhos), but unclear whether he derives *stogʰ-nós from a Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ- (“pole; rod; stick; stake”). Per Pokorny et al., from PIE *(s)teg- (“stake, pole, rod, stick, beam”) and cognate with Latin tignum ("tree trunk, beam, log"), but not cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος.
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra.
Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

der

(poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.


stack

en-verb

stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)

stacks (present singular third-person)
stacking (participle present)
stacked (participle past)
stacked (past)

натрупвам

To place objects or material in the form of a stack

This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!

(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.

нареждам

I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!

(transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.


triumph

en-noun

triumph (countable and uncountable, plural triumphs)

From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Old French triumphe, from Latin triumphus (“triumphal procession”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos, “thriambus”). Doublet of thriambus and trump.

der

A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.

триумф

ceremony performed in honour of a victory

Eros has
Packt Cards with Cæsars, and false plaid my Glory
Unto an Enemies triumph

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

A card trick in which the cards are shuffled with half face-up and half face-down, then laid out so that only the observer's chosen card is facing upward.


triumph

en-verb

triumph (third-person singular simple present triumphs, present participle triumphing, simple past and past participle triumphed)

triumphs (present singular third-person)
triumphing (participle present)
triumphed (participle past)
triumphed (past)

Of the kings and the queens that triumph in the cards

1625, Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles and Their Union:


offside

en-adj

offside (comparative more offside, superlative most offside)

more offside (comparative)
most offside (superlative)

(bridge) Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.