"busted flush" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-busted flush.ogg [Australia] Forms: busted flushes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} busted flush (plural busted flushes)
  1. (UK, poker) A potential flush which ultimately was not filled. Tags: UK Categories (topical): Poker
    Sense id: en-busted_flush-en-noun-yYMSaxK2 Categories (other): British English Topics: card-games, poker
  2. (UK, idiomatic) Anything which ends up worthless despite great potential. Tags: UK, idiomatic Translations (anything which ends up worthless despite great potential): Reinfall [masculine] (German), Fehlschlag [masculine] (German), Luftnummer [feminine] (German), Flop [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-busted_flush-en-noun-YKoGoW1U Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 74 Disambiguation of 'anything which ends up worthless despite great potential': 4 96

Inflected forms

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