Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a poker (metal rod).
  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of the card game of poker.

Etymologies

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poker +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Jake held onto the surprised smile ready to burst out on his lips; with great restraint, he kept a sober, pokerlike expression.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

  • Jake held onto the surprised smile ready to burst out on his lips; with great restraint, he kept a sober, pokerlike expression.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

  • Jake held onto the surprised smile ready to burst out on his lips; with great restraint, he kept a sober, pokerlike expression.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

  • Jake held onto the surprised smile ready to burst out on his lips; with great restraint, he kept a sober, pokerlike expression.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

  • I babbled on till from the corner of my eye I saw the flush fade from the professor's face and his back gradually relax its pokerlike attitude.

    Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm Armand [Illustrator] Both 1928

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